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Pakistani-born cricketer Rafiq, who played for the Yorkshire county team for a decade, told Britain’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in November 2021 that comments and racial behavior of his fellow cricketers led him to end his life. doing it too.
Former England captain Andrew Strauss has urged cricketers to avoid dressing room pranks involving racial slurs or bullying to avoid controversies such as the Azim Rafiq episode. Pakistani-born cricketer Rafiq, who played for the Yorkshire county team for a decade, told Britain’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in November 2021 that comments and racial behavior of his fellow cricketers led him to end his life. doing it too.
Cricket director Strauss of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said in a speech to the Marylebone Cricket Club Cowdrey at Lord’s on Wednesday that players of different nationalities are now more visible than ever in the locker room, so what cricket mates say and do is not enough. First of all be a little cautious.
Strauss, one of England’s most successful captains, told ‘Sky Sports’: “We deal with players of different genders, races and different beliefs in the game and maybe that kind of talk or banter in the dressing room needs to avoid something that’s not It sounds racist.Strauss also stressed the importance of ‘sportsmanship’, saying the Azim Rafiq episode a year and a half ago had damaged the image of English cricket and showed that much more needed to be done to preserve the image of the game.
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