Historic cricket Test 'postponed indefinitely'

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The brag of Cricket Tasmania has confirmed the scheduled Test lucifer betwixt Australia and Afghanistan volition beryllium "postponed indefinitely" aboriginal this week.

The 2 sides were owed to conscionable successful the historical archetypal ever Test betwixt the nations successful Hobart successful precocious November.

Those plans were thrown into chaos earlier this month, with the Taliban takeover successful Afghanistan.

Cricket Australia said it would not let the lucifer to spell up unless the Taliban softens its stance connected women playing the game.

Cricket Tasmania brag Dominic Baker confirmed to Triple M that the lucifer won't spell up arsenic scheduled, but suggested it won't beryllium cancelled altogether.

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"It'll beryllium formally postponed indefinitely this week. That volition travel retired successful the adjacent mates of days," Baker said.

"It's astir giving the Afghanistan authorities immoderate absorption astir what they person to bash to get backmost into sport.

"It's not acceptable that they don't let pistillate sport. If they privation to play competitory antheral sport, peculiarly successful the cricket sphere, they person to rethink what they bash with pistillate sport."

Steve Smith and Tim Paine. (Getty)

Cricket Australia's connection earlier this period near small anticipation of the lucifer going ahead.

"Driving the maturation of women's cricket globally is incredibly important to Cricket Australia. Our imaginativeness for cricket is that it is simply a athletics for each and we enactment the crippled unequivocally for women astatine each level," it said.

"If caller media reports that women's cricket volition not beryllium supported successful Afghanistan are substantiated, Cricket Australia would person nary alternate but to not big Afghanistan for the projected Test Match owed to beryllium played successful Hobart."

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