{"id":68841,"date":"2025-01-10T18:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/10\/lisa-nandy-rejects-calls-england-boycott-afghanistan-cricket-match"},"modified":"2025-01-10T18:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:56:35","slug":"lisa-nandy-rejects-calls-for-england-to-boycott-afghanistan-cricket-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68841","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Nandy rejects calls for England to boycott Afghanistan cricket match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Culture secretary says it should go ahead despite pressure for it to be cancelled over Taliban\u2019s treatment of women<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/jan\/10\/uk-politics-latest-news-labour-rachel-reeves-bond-markets\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>England should be allowed to play next month\u2019s cricket match against Afghanistan, the culture and sport secretary has said, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/06\/cricket-ecb-urged-to-boycott-afghanistan-champions-trophy-politicians\">calls for a boycott<\/a> over the Taliban government\u2019s treatment of women.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Nandy backed a decision by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to allow the game to go ahead, saying on Friday that cancelling it would \u201cdeny sports fans the opportunity that they love\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/10\/lisa-nandy-rejects-calls-england-boycott-afghanistan-cricket-match\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture secretary says it should go ahead despite pressure for it to be cancelled over Taliban\u2019s treatment of womenUK politics live \u2013 latest updatesEngland should be allowed to play next month\u2019s cricket match against Afghanistan, the culture and sport &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,499,3222,3224,1728,4,61,203,912,44,52,281,3223,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-cricket","category-ecb","category-icc-champions-trophy","category-lisa-nandy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-sport-politics","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-women","category-womens-cricket","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68841\/revisions\/68842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}