{"id":635351,"date":"2026-06-12T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635351\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:00:09","slug":"afghanistan-refugee-teams-future-to-be-discussed-at-icc-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635351\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan refugee team’s future to be discussed at ICC conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The future funding of the Afghanistan women’s refugee team will be one of the topics discussed at the International Cricket Council’s annual conference next month.<\/p>\n

Last year, the cricket boards in England, Australia and India, plus the ICC, announced a joint programme to support the players who were exiled after the Taliban returned to power in 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n

Having played their first competitive match in Melbourne in January 2025 and travelled to India during last year’s 50-over World Cup, the squad are touring England for a series of developmental T20 matches this summer, but that funding ends in August.<\/p>\n

There is likely to be a discussion about cricket’s integration of refugees more broadly at the four-day ICC conference, which begins in Edinburgh on 8 July – three days after the Afghan team will attend the T20 World Cup final at Lord’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future funding of the Afghanistan women’s refugee team will be one of the topics discussed at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}