Cricket Thread -4

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Black West Indian players have visited and played in India have taken back some of the fondest memories from our soil. Same with any other player of color from say SA or England etc. So it's not really a color versus non-color issue.

Here's a primer on Aussie Racism in Cricket released by Australia’s Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission!!


<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->On Australian cricket, the report points to “racial sledging” of South African cricketers who “were referred to as kaffirs by a small section of spectators” at Perth in December 2005. It says that cricketers from <b>Sri Lanka were “subjected to calls of ‘black c——’ at Adelaide</b>, and adds that an ICC security official was punched by spectators in Melbourne.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The racist sledging of players by spectators started during the Perth Test in December 2005, when some South African players were referred to as ‘kaffirs’ by a small section of spectators in the crowd. Similar taunting was also reported by the South African players in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Members of the Sri Lankan team were subjected to calls of ‘black c——’ from spectators at the Adelaide Oval during a One Day International match on Australia Day<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Players haven’t been the only targets. <b>The International Cricket Council’s regional anti-corruption and security chief, John Rhodes, was punched by a drunken spectator at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome after being identified as South African</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->BCCI’s Anti-Racism Commissioner Prof Ratnakar Shetty told The Indian Express: “All of us know how Sri Lanka’s <b>Muttiah Muralitharan was taunted by crowds in Australia. We know how they treated England’s Monty Panesar</b>. Look who is talking.” <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->



South Africa's Makhaya Ntini has been abused in Australia
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Fast bowler Makhaya Ntini and several other players were called "kaffirs" and "kaffir boetie" (brother of blacks) by people in the Waca crowd. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->