Cricket: Blackcaps, Afghanistan test match to be played in neutral county, growing calls for New Zealand Cricket to cancel tour [Video]

There are growing calls for New Zealand Cricket to consider abandoning a controversial test match with Afghanistan later this year, not just for security, but moral reasons.  

Newshub can reveal that the Blackcaps’ one-test tour to Afghanistan in September will be held in a neutral country, likely India or the UAE, due to player safety and security concerns.  

But at a time when other nations are refusing to play the Central Asian nation due to women’s rights concerns, questions are being asked why NZC aren’t taking a stance.  

“The game can probably do more to try and support these women and stand up to gender oppression,” former England international Isa Guha said during last week’s MCC Cowdrey Lecture.

And some cricketing nations are refusing to play the men’s side, due to Afghanistan continuing to breach ICC criteria as the only ICC full member nation without a women’s team.  

But, New …