Cricket Australia has deployed a Multicultural Action Plan to tackle racism in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The board’s decision comes days before IND vs AUS 2nd Test in Adelaide and aims to tackle & prevent incidents involving Indian players being subjected to racial abuse. The last time an Indian player was targeted by Australian fans was in 2020-21 when Mohammed Siraj was called “brown dog” and “big monkey”.
CA’s plan to tackle racism during IND vs AUS
CA’s Michael Nepper shed light on his initiative to start engaging with multicultural audience and categorically stated that incidents that involve racial discrimination and abuse will see the fan (or threat) being identified and evicted from the venue immediately. He said that legal implications will follow and the fan potentially won’t be able to watch cricket at the venue ever again.
“It’s very simple. If we can identify and know who has done an act like that, whatever that act might be, they would immediately be asked to leave. I’m saying that politely, they’ll be removed. And that will happen within the venue itself. They would then be part of… call it a legal process where we would look at a potential banning order. And so they can’t come to cricket going forward,” Nepper said.
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Siraj’s incident in Sydney from 2021 sparked outrage and demands were made for stringent action to be taken on those who hurled racial abuses at the Indian pacer. Although they were ejected from the venue, both teams had expressed concerns over such instances that dent the reputation of the game. At that time, Cricket Australia apologized to the Indian team and vowed to take strong action against the offenders.
“Siraj was referred to as ‘Brown Dog’ and ‘Big Monkey’ both of which are racist slurs. The matter was immediately brought to the notice of on-field umpires. They were constantly abusing Bumrah too,” a BCCI source had told PTI.
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