In its proposal, the ICC had really helpful a six-team occasion for each the lads’s and ladies’s competitions which was accepted by the IOC. By 2025, the LA28 and ICC will work out a contest construction in addition to the way in which during which groups can qualify for the occasion.
The LA28 organisers have careworn on gender equality on the Olympics, which usually sees participation from each genders in particular person and workforce sports activities. Nevertheless, Afghanistan at present should not have a girls’s cricket workforce, with 22 out of the 25 contracted gamers transferring abroad because the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021. There stays an opportunity, nonetheless, that the lads’s workforce would possibly participate within the occasion in 5 years’ time.
“(In) the Olympic competitors groups are fielded by the Nationwide Olympic Committees of these international locations,” Allardice instructed the BBC‘s Stumped podcast. “As a world sporting federation, we place our sport with the LA28 organisers for inclusion. And the IOC they usually (LA28) have included cricket. By way of the place of the Nationwide Olympic Committee of Afghanistan, it is most likely one thing for the IOC to have the ability to tackle extra precisely than me. However I do know that they (IOC) have been following the progress or the developments there. Our place on cricket and supporting our member in Afghanistan isn’t dissimilar to these of different worldwide sporting organisations.”
In its communication with the Taliban authorities, the IOC has been emphasising that the nation’s Nationwide Olympic Committee (NOC) will likely be at risk of suspension if entry to sports activities for ladies continues to be restricted. The IOC has not cleared Afghanistan’s participation for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
IOC president Thomas Bach had identified on the Mumbai session that the onus was on Afghanistan’s Nationwide Olympic Committee to point out the progress it was making to make sure girls cricketers have been receiving encouragement and help to compete in any respect ranges. “On this broader context, cricket will likely be thought of in the long run,” he mentioned
“They have been within the technique of doing that by to 2021,” Allardice mentioned. “And in 2021 the regime within the nation modified and has introduced in guidelines, legal guidelines that prohibit girls from taking part in sport within the nation. While we’ve got spoken with the Afghanistan Cricket Board and their place is that they should function inside the legal guidelines of the nation and the principles set by the federal government.”
An ICC working group, led by its deputy chair Imran Khwaja, has been liaising with the Taliban authorities within the final yr with the final word goal of serving to girls play cricket safely. “The query for the ICC board is will we help our member of their potential to advertise cricket inside the guidelines set by the federal government of the nation? And consider is sure,” Allardice mentioned.
As a Full Member, the ACB receives important funding. As per the ICC’s monetary distribution mannequin for the following cycle (2024-27), the ACB will obtain roughly USD 16.8 million as its share from the industrial earnings. Allardice mentioned that the member boards had the autonomy to utilise the funds as they noticed match.
“How these members distribute these funds and using that cash may be very a lot as much as these members. With any of our members, we’ve got a test and stability over how that cash is distributed and whether or not it goes to sure contracts or different contracts. We do not stipulate how that must be managed.”