‘IT’S NOT THE TALIBAN V LNP, IT’S AN OFFICIAL TES T MATCH’
THE last living Australian cricketer to have served in armed combat believes Australia should play Afghanistan in the Hobart Test – but not ot fly the Taliban flag.
Tony Dell, the lanky English-born Queensland fast bowler who played two Tests in the 1970s, has just released a biography hy detailing his post-traumatic stress disorder that went undiagnosed for four decades after he returned from the Vietnam War as a 22-year-old in 1968.
The release of Dell’s brutally honest work And Bring the
Darkness Home (Pitoh Publishing: Greg Milam) has coincided with a complex public debate over o whether
Australia Aust should play Afghanistan Af in a proposed p Test in November given the recent Taliban takeover t of that nation. na
““For the sake of the cricket and the cricketers of course they should play – but I would not be flying the Taliban flag (at the Test in Hobart),” Dell said. “I would play it because the Test is not a competition between the governments. It is not the Taliban versus the LNP. It is Australia versus Afghanistan.”