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Thank you Vicki Treadell for your kind hospitality & wonderful opportunity to meet the #AfghanistanWomensCricket team. Loved seeing women of the diplomatic corps too! The sisterhood is real.

Delighted to host the #Afghan Women's #Cricket Team to dinner, the final one of my tenure at the 🇬🇧Residence, Westminster House. Stories of courage & hope. Thanks Catherine Ordway, PhD, Natasha Stott Despoja, many of my fellow ♀️Heads of Missions & team UK in Australia 🇬🇧🇦🇺 for attending.

I'm proud to announce on behalf of the ICC a landmark initiative we've partnered on with the BCCI, England & Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia to assist displaced Afghan women cricketers in both their cricketing and development journeys. Media release:

The @icc announce they are setting up a task force including a dedicated fund for displaced Afghanistan women players. A team of cricketers fled the country after the return of the Taliban. More on their story in Cricket’s Forgotten Team. #bbccricket bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

More on the ICC funding for the Afghanistan women’s players. #bbccricket bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

Humbled to have been awarded the Spirit of Cricket award with Mel Jones and Emma Staples on behalf of all the Afghan women who want to live freely and to play the sport they love 🏏🏏🏏💓💓💓

Great to chat w James Findlay on the ICC announcement that exiled #Afghan women cricketers will receive $$ from the #ICC ahead of formal recognition cricket.com.au Australian Women's Cricket FanPage Test Match Special Tracey Holmes Marylebone Cricket Club espnW University of Canberra abc.net.au/listen/program… via ABC Australia

Terrific to speak to Daniela Intili on ABC News about the ICC decision to support displaced #Afghan women cricketers 🇦🇫🏏 Let’s see whether the ICC will match the $20M provided to the Afghanistan Cricket Board cricket.com.au Female Cricket England Cricket BCCI Marylebone Cricket Club Australian Women's Cricket FanPage

Wouldn’t that be good

ICC's plan for exiled Afghan women's cricket team exciting but unclear, advocate says Catherine Ordway, PhD ABC SPORT

International Cricket Council pledges funding, support 4 Afghanistan’s exiled cricketers Great to speak The World ⁦PRX⁩ ⁦Bianca Hillier⁩ with ⁦Raf Nicholson⁩ ⁦ICC⁩ ⁦Women’s CricZone⁩ ⁦Mel Jones⁩ ⁦Cricket Australia⁩ theworld.org/stories/2025/0…

Olympic handballer Russell Garnett working to provide sustainable housing Natalie Galea Asian Handball Federation Handball - News olympics.com.au/news/olympic-h… via @Australian Olympic Committee International Handball Federation Handball Australia Sydney Uni Media

Interesting that AFC member Australia hosted the last women’s #FIFAWorldCup, will host next women’s #AFCAsianCup, women’s football is growing throughout the region but not a single woman is part of the ‘acclaimed leadership certificate’ cohort. Isn’t that weird?

Looking forward to talking about the impact of women’s pro sports leagues on Life Matters in an hour #womensfootball abc.net.au/listen/radiona…

For every dollar bet on the pro leagues, #sports governing bodies get a cut. In one year it was found free-to-air consumers were bombarded with one million #gambling ads. Now Tabcorp, run by the former #AFL boss, has been fined $4million for breeching spam laws. Is it enough?

The risk to the integrity of sport from overseas gambling operators with Catherine Ordway, PhD from University of Canberra. #sport #integrity #gambling #football #tennis #cricket

This week's podcast ep is up on the testy relationship between #sport and #gambling with insights on #matchfixing, government regulation (or not), Australia's negative role modelling and #womensport now a target plus straying into #FIFA's #ClubWorldCup, #SaudiArabia's impact on

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The world is in a delicate state. Athletes everywhere are impacted. While sport cannot solve the problems, it provides a lens through which to get a 360 degree view - that is the eye of the dragonfly. My new book will be out in September through SimonSchusterANZ #sport #news