'We are not talking here about some fleeting foreign concern, but about the wholesale destruction of freedoms for 14 million women prohibited from cooking near their own windows or from being educated beyond primary-school age. In sport, there is such a phenomenon as a moral imperative. It was heeded over South Africa, but it is being ignored over Afghanistan, as if the men running cricket have decided that women do not matter sufficiently for a boycott to be considered. And now, at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, we reach the grisly endgame, a day of unmitigated shame.'
Thank you to Oliver Brown. And good luck to the women protesting, including Jean Hatchett and Arzo Parsi.