Kabul: Amid tensions continues in Afghanistan, the national cricket team has got the approval from the Taliban to play a one-off Test match against Australia in September.
Afghanistan cricket board confirmed on Wednesday that the match is scheduled to be played from November 27 in Hobart.
The Test match will be the first that Afghanistan will play since the Taliban’s takeover earlier this month. Cricket Australia has also claimed that the match was “well underway”.
“There is goodwill between CA and the Afghanistan Cricket Board to make the match happen, which immediately follows the ICC T20 World Cup in the UAE in which the Afghanistan team is due to play,” the spokesperson said.
“CA will continue to work with the Australian and Tasmanian governments ahead of the Afghanistan team’s arrival planned for later this year,” he said.
The Taliban have said they will not interfere with the Afghan men’s national cricket team, the country’s biggest sporting success of recent years, though the fate of the more modest women’s cricket programmes remains unclear.
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