A reasonably damning comment on the Hundred*:
"...the worst sporting event I’ve been at in 52 years of watching live sport and I’ve watched a lot of Stoke City."
Ouch!
*Not my own! (JimmyGreenhoffEnglandDebut, from the BBC's website)
#itsjustnotcricket
Here's a perspective. If you want to be a test cricketer, play like a test cricketer. Patience, tecnique, amd shot selection would be a good start. Throw showmanship and being a larrikin in the bin until you have rightfully earned a place in the team. #cricket #itsjustnotcricket
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Not only is England's mens cricket team STILL playing Afghanistan, but they are playing in Pakistan
-a country planning to deport 35 women to Afghanistan to a certain death for campaigning for women's rights
#ItsJustNotCricket
www.change.org/p/save-35-af...
If sport wasn't political, women (& girls) wouldn't be banned from it.
#ItsJustNotCricket #BoycottEnglandVAfghanistan
Take action (link in bio)
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) HAS REFUSED permission to let Afghan women play as a refugee team.
The Afghan men's team continue to receive the full funding $5M per year from the @ICC
#BoycottTheICC #ItsJustNotCricket
Take Action- 🔗 in bio
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
The @ICC give the Afghan Cricket Board aprx $5 million annually.
Not a penny reaches the exiled women's team.
#ItsJustNotCricket #BoycottTheICC #EndGenderApartheid
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If it doesn’t end in a draw #itsJustNotCricket
Jos's casual disregard for the serious & simple to understand human rights issues surrounding the upcoming #EnglandVAfghanistan match is a perfect example of the boys club in full swing
#ItsJustNotCricket
#BoycottTheICC
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"The ICC must stop making unfair decisions and turn their face to the women of Afghanistan. We are here, we just dream to play cricket for our country."
#ItsJustNotCricket #BoycottTheICC
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The Afghan Cricket Board receives $17M a year from the
@ICC
Some of this is for the exiled women's team & developing women & girls cricket
The women's team has not received a penny & sports are banned for all females #ItsJustNotCricket
#TakeAction #LinkInBio#BoycottCricket #ItsNotJustCricket
#ItsJustNotCricket
Well it isn’t it is?
Use the templates to contact the English Cricket Board, your MP, the ICC.
#BoycottEnglandVAfghanistan #BoycottTheICC
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The ICCs approach to Afghanistan has failed. Since the Afghan Cricket Board has been a full member the situation for women & girls continues to deteriorate.
Please take action & write to the ICC #ItsJustNotCricket
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Women & women’s sport is seen as an optional add on by England cricket & the ICC
It is unacceptable that they are failing to uphold women’s rights in the most extreme of situations
#ItsJustNotCricket #BoycottTheICC
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Former Northern Ireland first minister Baroness Foster has called for the England men's cricket team to boycott Afghanistan.
She joins Kier Starmer & 160 parliamentarians calling for a boycott #ItsJustNotCricket #Itsnotjustcricket
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Downing Street has called on the International Cricket Council to “deliver on their own rules”
#ItsJustNotCricket #ItsnotJUSTcricket #BoycottTheICC
#EnglandVAfghanistan
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To add insult to injury the @ICC has selected #Omarzai, an Afghan male player for #CricketerOfTheYear nominations
No Afghan women have been selected.
Obviously.
#ItsJustNotCricket #ItsNotJUSTcricket #BoycottTheICC
www.icc-cricket.com/news/icc-awa...
2 We have updated our template letter to the England & Wales Cricket Board, so thank you to everyone who has written, please continue to write:
#ItsJustNotCricket #ItsNotJustCricket #BoycottTheICC
Take Action
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1 The England Cricket Board said “we would prefer to take unified rather than unilateral action”
Which is a lot of words for “don’t spoil our fun.”
#ItsJustNotCricket #ItsNotJustCricket #BoycottTheICC #Afghanistan #SexApartheid #EndGenderApartheid #RichardGould
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Thanks to @sisterssalon.bsky.social for initiating this important action in protest against the England V Afghanistan #ICC cricket match due to take place on Feb 26. Whilst Afghan women continue to be denied their rights please sign & share #ItsJustNotCricket #BoycottTheICC
#ItsJustNotCricket #ItsNotJustCricket
Thank you Tonia Antoniazzi MP for organising a letter with 160 parliamentarians calling for a boycott of England V Afghanistan.
Has your MP signed?
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More actions
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Playing Afghanistan sends a message to the exiled Afghan women’s team & women everywhere that cricket matters more than women & girls #ItsNotJustCricket
USE OUR TEMPLATE LETTER
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As women are banned from all sports, sports stadiums, employment & walking without a male chaperone, the only way you will see a woman in an Afghan sports stadium is if she is being flogged, stoned or hanged
#ItsJustNotCricket #BoycottTheICC
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The ICC’s website states:
“The increasing number of cricket clubs in Afghanistan.. is making the context very much inclusive”
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Take action via this link including template emails 👇
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#ItsJustNotCricket #BoycottTheICC
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Agree. To do anything else would be unconscionable.
#ItsJustNotCricket
Boycott England V Afghanistan in the ICC Men's Champion Cup
Use our page of actions #ItsJustNotCricket
🏏Email the ICC using our template email
🏏Social media post template
🏏 Sign & share the petition
🏏 Join the campaign to #EndGenderApartheid
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The ICC must boycott the men's Afghan team.
With Afghan women stripped of their basic human rights #ItsJustNotCricket
Take action 🏏
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#RespectWomen #EndGenderAparthied
The Australians really should've rescinded their appeal. #Bazball #AUSvIND #itsjustnotcricket
#boycottSanitarium Big business #Sanitarium throwing its weight around in NZ #badton #itsjustnotcricket #boohiss www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/30/britis...
