Avoid racial and bullying jokes in the dressing room: Strauss
Former England captain Andrew Strauss has urged cricketers to avoid dressing room banter involving racial slurs or bullying to avoid controversies like the Azim Rafiq episode. Pakistan-born cricketer Rafiq, who played for county team Yorkshire for a decade, told Britain’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in November 2021 that racial comments and behavior by fellow cricketers made him end his life. Started thinking about doing it too.
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) director of cricket Strauss said in a Marylebone Cricket Club Cowdrey speech at Lord’s on Wednesday that players of different nationalities are now more visible in the dressing room than ever before, so what fellow cricketers 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 conversation or banter in the dressing room Need to avoid something that doesn’t sound racist. Strauss also stressed the importance of ‘sportsmanship’ and said 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. Is.
