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The Taliban has beheaded a female volleyball player Mahjabin Hakimi

They have made it clear that women cannot play sport or you will die

A country with that kind of thinking has no business rubbing shoulders with the rest of the civilized world

For a team that has overcome so much and showed the world some incredible players in a little over a decade, sadly, its time to ban Afghanistan

In reply to conman
In light of a beheading of a woman a ban should be a must yes. Knowing Int'l sports organizations they'll go through a whole rigmarole to arrive at the 'truth' first.

In reply to conman
That is truly disgusting.I did say in the backroom that those barbarians have got to change and drag themseles into the 21st century.Or they cannot interract with the rest of the international community.Yes..its their country.I get that argument.But the Taliban must learn to behave.

In reply to Alan

This act along proves they have no ability to be civilized

As much problems that world cricket has had with cricket Australia, their moral stance to not play their scheduled test next month

The rest of the cricket fraternity needs to take that stance

Rubbing shoulders with Afghanistan has no upside, it just benefits and legitimizes their stances

In reply to conman
I remember the Apartheid years in relation to a different kind of discrimination...racial institutionalised discrimination.South Africa was isolated.But with regards to the Afghan sportsmen and women representing Afghanistan what circumstances are they are doing so now ? They may be playing sports having been refugees in other countries.Should they be blamed and banned for atrocities by the now Taliban govt?

In reply to conman
West Indies should be front and centre in seeing that a ban is effected against Afghanistan....BUT guess what
They are not South Africa of apartheid era and guess what...they played Afghanistan today and goe butt whipped in a prqactice game.
They have no shame,west Indies , that is.

And my country of birth is silent..after all they treat women with little respect,,politican recently beat his 'wife' with a chair ? and its all over social media
and he is still in the House Of Representatives.

As soon as this Afghanistan government came to power , and announced their policy against women in sports etc, only Australia took a stand.
For a country founded as a convict colony, the descendants are certainly showing up other socalled 'good' boys. Respct OZ.
It is no too late to kick Afghanistan out of this WC and send a clear message to everyone ,especially the women of the world.

In reply to hubert


The Women’s Arm of the United National Congress (UNC), has taken Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to task, following recent statements he made concerning the Opposition Leader’s move to have a tribunal set up to determine whether the President should be removed from office.According to the UNC Women’s Arm, the Prime Minister’s comments against Mrs Persad-Bissessar amount to “verbal abuse”, and he is acting the hypocrite when not long after those statements, he reportedly urged women to "stand up and support their female counterparts instead of bringing each other down".

In reply to hubert
But are the Afghan cricketers who may be among the diaspora abroad be banned by the ICC...they may not even be in the country.Should they be banned and blamed for what is happening in Afghanistan?They may likely be opponents of the regime and fled. The situation is different to South African Apartheid situation.

In reply to Alan
How is it different really. Action was taken by governments and the ICC against the SA regime and banned them. The cricketers plied their
trade all over but not as SOUTH AFRICA . Same should be meted out to the Afghanistan Regime and they should not be recognized as as part of
the cricket society

It's about the Country it should not be accepted in the world community until it becomes decent.
Individual cricketers can and will find a life in cricket in the same way the South africans did,becoming citizens in places such
as Australia and mainly England and prospered too.
I don't know if I can make it understandable for you.

I'm 1000 percent on board with this.

Now there are reports that the rest of the team are on the run living in fear, if they already havent been killed.

Ban this team

Good Article on sports and the taliban

In reply to hubert

Should the ICC ban Australia?

Their continuing atrocity against the native people who they replaced is still ongoing. Is this worse than the native Taliban taking control of their native country with the support of the majority of their native Pashtun people?

However you feel about their philosophy, you must remember the majority of "Afghanis" are Pashtuns and so are the the Taliban. For thousands of years they stick together and they never accepted outsiders.

So don't let the western media narrative fool you.

In reply to Emir

They just beheaded a woman because she played a sport

In reply to Emir

so because Australia's treatment of their native people, are you suggesting that the treatment of women in Afghanistan should be overlooked?

Seriously?

In reply to Emir
Should your questions be answered ?
I don't ususally respond to fools. but I will make an exception in your case.
No. go figure out why .

Australia at least rwecognized their error unlike other countries who continue to perpetrate callousness against their
own people and especially women. Beheading ?....Try putting your head on a block and get back to me.
Australia is the only country within the cricket community that has taken more than a principled and correct stance.

How about Trinidad ? Do they with the captain of West Indies team being a Trini, share the Afghanistan's Regime plans and philosophy ?
You obviously do...now kerry your skunt.

In reply to hubert
That is one messed up post by Emir. Good response.

In reply to tops

Good to know how and what some of us support . As they say, 'I done with He "

In reply to googley

No, not at all and I hate this group, but I wanted to show the poster you ignore one and go after the other, just be consistent. The other thing is you want to punish the Taliban but how would that help the people, the Taliban couldn't care less, but the people who will be punished

In reply to Emir