Cricket Australia Cancels Another Series Against Afghanistan Over Treatment of Women

It has raised the ire of the ACB, which said the ongoing ban was damaging political relations and wrongly putting bureaucracy ahead of sport.

Afghanistan's Shapoor Zadran, center, and his teammates celebrate taking the wicket of Bangladeshs Shamsur Rahman during the Asia Cup one-day international cricket tournament in Fatullah, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, March 1, 2014. AP Photo/A.M. Ahad

Concerns over the human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan have again caused the Australian cricket team to withdraw from a scheduled bilateral T20 series against the hosts in August.

Cricket Australia’s (CA) objections to the actions of the Taliban-controlled country were enough to officially postpone the series, which was to be played in neutral territory in the United Arab Emirates.