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On this week鈥檚 episode of Stumped, Pakistan batsman Tayyab Tahir joins Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma to discuss his first call-up to the men鈥檚 national side, which he found out about when his name was read out on television. He impressed as a substitute in their One Day International series with New Zealand and is now gearing up for a debut stint in the Pakistan Super League with Karachi Kings. He tells us about his three years playing club cricket in England and sharing a dressing room with the ICC Men鈥檚 Cricketer of the Year, Babar Azam.

We also hear from the Afghanistan women鈥檚 cricketers who fled the country following the takeover of the Taliban in 2021 and have been living and playing in Australia ever since. They鈥檝e called on the ICC to support them and have backed the Australia Cricket Board鈥檚 decision to withdraw from their ODI series with the Afghanistan men鈥檚 team.

Plus, we discuss Ashleigh Gardner鈥檚 criticism of the ACB鈥檚 decision to schedule a match on Australia Day, the public holiday which marks the arrival of the first British fleet in Sydney, 235 years ago. Gardner, who is from the indigenous Muruwari people, said it is a day of 鈥渉urt鈥�, and that the scheduling "doesn't sit well" with her or the people she is representing.

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