ICC T20 World Cup: England still looking for the ‘right’ gesture against racism | Cricket News – Times of India
Before the T20 World Cup began, the England team had plans to protest racism and any form of discrimination by wearing T-shirts with messages. However, when they arrived in the UAE, they were told by the International Cricket Council (ICC) that they would not be able to wear those T-shirts.
That prompted Morgan to agree on taking a knee prior to the game against the West Indies, a gesture that was repeated in their second match vs Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi.
Morgan and his mates though are not very happy about this indecision over what gesture they will adopt prior to each game and they are looking for some clarity.
“I hope we don’t have a problem of not having a consistent approach to tackling racism,” Morgan said ahead of the match against Australia.
“Certainly, from our side of things, not being allowed to have our moment of unity before a game (wearing anti-racism t-shirts) is just something that we’ve talked about during the two games that we’ve played. Later this afternoon we’re going to talk about it again because, if we’re not allowed to take our stance against all discriminations, we need to try and find something else that makes a difference for this period of time,” the skipper stressed.
The past week has been a turbulent one in terms of cricket’s brush with racism and the stand players take, or don’t, post the Quinton de Kock episode and his apology to Cricket South Africa and the Yorkshire county findings over lack of evidence in the allegations levelled by former county skipper Azeem Rafiq.
Morgan clarified though that had it been a bilateral series, England’s choice of gesture (wearing t-shirts) would have been allowed after seeking the necessary permissions of the respective boards and said that the team would try and find a way to come up with something.
That gave one the hint that Morgan and the rest of the players may not be too keen to go along with taking a knee as he wants the message to be collective and wants everyone buying into it. “One thing we’ve always talked about, when we talk about collective message being more powerful, is that everybody agrees to what we’re buying into.
“When we initially talked about our culture piece, we talked at length and didn’t really want to commit to anything unless everybody wanted to do it because we feel it’s the best way to raise awareness, educate, and I suppose come across with a more powerful message,” he stressed and informed that whatever England do, he will let the Aussie team know too to check if they are comfortable doing it.
The events post the toss in Dubai could be more interesting than the game itself.
That prompted Morgan to agree on taking a knee prior to the game against the West Indies, a gesture that was repeated in their second match vs Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi.
Morgan and his mates though are not very happy about this indecision over what gesture they will adopt prior to each game and they are looking for some clarity.
“I hope we don’t have a problem of not having a consistent approach to tackling racism,” Morgan said ahead of the match against Australia.
“Certainly, from our side of things, not being allowed to have our moment of unity before a game (wearing anti-racism t-shirts) is just something that we’ve talked about during the two games that we’ve played. Later this afternoon we’re going to talk about it again because, if we’re not allowed to take our stance against all discriminations, we need to try and find something else that makes a difference for this period of time,” the skipper stressed.
The past week has been a turbulent one in terms of cricket’s brush with racism and the stand players take, or don’t, post the Quinton de Kock episode and his apology to Cricket South Africa and the Yorkshire county findings over lack of evidence in the allegations levelled by former county skipper Azeem Rafiq.
Morgan clarified though that had it been a bilateral series, England’s choice of gesture (wearing t-shirts) would have been allowed after seeking the necessary permissions of the respective boards and said that the team would try and find a way to come up with something.
That gave one the hint that Morgan and the rest of the players may not be too keen to go along with taking a knee as he wants the message to be collective and wants everyone buying into it. “One thing we’ve always talked about, when we talk about collective message being more powerful, is that everybody agrees to what we’re buying into.
“When we initially talked about our culture piece, we talked at length and didn’t really want to commit to anything unless everybody wanted to do it because we feel it’s the best way to raise awareness, educate, and I suppose come across with a more powerful message,” he stressed and informed that whatever England do, he will let the Aussie team know too to check if they are comfortable doing it.
The events post the toss in Dubai could be more interesting than the game itself.
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