{"id":500764,"date":"2023-01-12T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=500764"},"modified":"2023-01-22T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T13:24:57","slug":"rashid-khan-threatens-to-quit-the-bbl-after-australia-s-decision-to-cancel-afghanistan-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rashid-khan-threatens-to-quit-the-bbl-after-australia-s-decision-to-cancel-afghanistan-tour","title":{"rendered":"Rashid Khan threatens to QUIT the BBL after Australia&#8217;s decision to cancel Afghanistan tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of cricket&#8217;s biggest stars has threatened to quit the Big Bash League in response to Australia&#8217;s decision to cancel their tour of Afghanistan. Rashid Khan took to Twitter on Thursday night to blast Cricket Australia&#8217;s call to pull out of their three-match ODI series in Afghanistan in March , citing concerns over the Taliban &#8216;s treatment of women. Khan said he will be &#8216;strongly considering my future&#8217; in the Big Bash, having played for the Adelaide Strikers since 2017. &#8216;I am really disappointed to hear that Australia have pulled out of the series to play us in March,&#8217; he wrote. &#8216;I take great pride in representing my country and we have made great progress on the world stage. This decision from CA sets us back in that journey. &#8216;If playing vs Afghanistan is so uncomfortable for Australia then I wouldn&#8217;t want to make anyone uncomfortable with my presence in the BBL. &#8216;Therefore, I will be strongly considering my future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashid Khan took to Twitter to blast Cricket Australia&#8217;s call to pull out of their three-match ODI series in Afghanistan, citing concerns over the Taliban&#8217;s treatment of women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}