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Cricket: Afghanistan boycott backed by former NI first minister

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The letter also said that members of the Afghan women’s cricket team had fled the country and are now in exile.

Among those to sign the letter calling for the ECB to boycott the match are the former Labour leaders Jeremy Corbyn and Lord Kinnock, and the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

The Northern Ireland signatories are Hanna, Alliance MP Sorcha Eastwood, Ulster Unionist MP Robin Swann and four members of the House of Lords: Baroness Foster; Lord Morrow; Baroness Ritchie; and Baroness O’Loan.

Foster told BBC News NI she had decided to sign the letter to the ECB chief executive Richard Gould because of the Taliban’s treatment of women.

“Any way that we can raise the plight of women in Afghanistan I will absolutely be there because it’s getting more bizarre by the week, the way in which the Taliban are coming down on the freedom of women.

“I’m not a fan of boycotts, however the actions of the regime in Afghanistan absolutely mark the country out as a rogue nation, especially in relation to their continuing repression of women.”


BBC News

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