Former Scotland cricketer Majid Haq lashed out at Scotland gamers for not talking up regardless of a current impartial evaluate discovering Cricket Scotland to be “institutionally racist”. Whereas many cricketers all over the world have surprisingly revealed racial discrimination now, Haq and his former teammate Qasim Sheikh opened up about being handled indifferently attributable to their pores and skin color whereas taking part in worldwide cricket for Scotland.
An impartial evaluate performed after Haq’s claims discovered Cricket Scotland’s governance and management practices have been “institutionally racist”. Sheik’s lawyer Aamer Anwar took it to Twitter to query the Scotland gamers’ hypocrisy for taking a knew on the T20 World Cup 2021 and never talking about it but.
“What was the purpose of Scotland ‘taking the knee’ on the ICC T20 World Cup in 2021, when no white group member has chosen to say something a lot or at everywhere in the previous couple of days on institutional racism @CricketScotland. Silence is a not an choice, anti-racism not non-racism,” Anwar tweeted.
Majid Haq criticises Scotland gamers for staying quiet
Haq, who performed 54 ODIs and 21 T20 internationals from the interval 2006 to 2015 for Scotland, additionally criticized the white group members for staying quiet on the matter. Gamers have been taking a knee to assist anti-racism within the sport after lots of painful incidents all over the world.
“Pricey Scotland’s Cricket Group & Capt @Berrington44 What makes you all so silent? Shameful that white group members have mentioned little or nothing on damning report on racism @CricketScotland however you have been joyful to take the knee in 2021″, Haq’s tweet on Twitter learn.
Haq additionally responded to a different Tweet stating the “deafening silence” from the gamers affirms that the practices have taken place. He concluded that though it would sound uncomfortable, the white gamers of Scotland won’t ever perceive the depth of the matter as they’ve the posh of not worrying about racism throughout group choice.
“Appears prefer it was nothing apart from a little bit of advantage signalling & tick field train as a result of the deafening silence from lots of them speaks volumes. They may really feel uncomfortable however their privilege is rarely having to suppose you’ll not make the group due to racism,” Haq responded to Anwar’s tweet on Twitter.
