Cricket must challenge gender apartheid in Afghanistan | Letter

Mike Stein would like the ICC to have the moral and political courage to lead a multilateral boycott

Jonathan Liew’s insightful article concludes that a unilateral boycott of the Champions Trophy would be a limited gesture in response to the Taliban’s oppressive gender-apartheid regime (Dignity and humanity of Afghan women must be worth more than game of cricket, 7 January).

Two additional points come to mind. First, England acted alone in 1968 in cancelling their tour to South Africa after the prime minister, John Vorster, banned the team for including the “mixed-race” player Basil D’Oliveira. England’s decision put pressure on the International Cricket Council, which introduced a moratorium on all international tours in 1970, resulting in South Africa’s exclusion from international cricket until Nelson Mandela walked free from prison in 1990.

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Source: Cricket - The Guardian