The topic of racism is likely to hit the Indian Premier League once again as the West Indies captain and Sunrisers Hyderabad player Jason Holder has expressed disappointment at players and team management not talking about the issue at all. He was also disappointed at players and teams not opting for taking a knee gesture before the start of a game in the ongoing season of the IPL.
"To be honest I haven't had one conversation up here around it. Sometimes it seems it has gone unnoticed, which is a sad thing. I guess it's for us to re-highlight the importance of it, for people to understand what is happening in the world,” Holder said to the Cricket Writers' Club after winning a venerable Peter Smith award for outstanding representation of the game to the public along with his West Indies team.
Notably, the comments have come at an interesting time as Holder was called in as a replacement for the injured Australian all-rounder Mitchell Marsh by The Sunrisers Hyderabad, the same franchise where former West Indies captain Daren Sammy had complained of subtle racism during his tenure as a player in IPL.
He urged a better understanding of the problems that he and other black players face and the kind of harsh world they come from. He said that the inequalities that black individuals face are right there in our faces and it’s the education that can help eradicate this social issue of racism.
"It's really important people understand where we as black people are coming from, and understand the harsh reality of how the world is set up. There are inequalities out there, some of them are very much in our faces, some are done discretely, but there are inequalities and I think it's just a level of education,” Holder added.
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