Michael Holding: “When Pakistan and England didn’t take a knee the ECB came out with a pretty lame statement. I didn’t hear anything at all from Pakistan – neither the players nor the board”
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Legendary West Indies pace bowler Michael Holding has lashed out at Pakistan, England and Australia for not taking a knee to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Sarfraz Ahmed: “What I was saying [was] that brother, where is your mum sitting now and what must your mother have prayed for you”
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Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed has once again insisted that he never made any racist comments towards South Africa all-rounder Andile Phehlukwayo.
Shoaib Akhtar on Sarfraz Ahmed’s four-match ban: “It could have been much worse”
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Legendary Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar believes that captain Sarfraz Ahmed should consider himself lucky that he only received a four-match ban for his racial comment against South Africa all-rounder Andile Phehlukwayo.
Gale will miss Yorkshire’s first two matches of the 2015 county season
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Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale has been banned for the first two matches of the 2015 county season after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) decided to drop the racism charges against him.
“What I was trying to do by my earlier comments is calm a situation and I realise that they had completely the opposite effect”
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Angus Porter, who is the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association, has apologised for his earlier comments about England all-rounder Moeen Ali.
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“That [the scandal] was the start of the end for Andrew Symonds”
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has revealed that the ‘Monkeygate’ scandal was responsible for ending all-rounder Andrew Symonds’ international career.
Chingoka believes the growing problem of racism must be tackled immediately
Long-standing Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka believes racism still remains a major problem in international cricket today and added that in some cases it has actually become worse.
Arthur believes racism in South African cricket is nowhere near as bad as it used to be
Former South Africa head coach Mickey Arthur has dismissed speculation that racism is still a major problem in South African cricket.
