Kolkata Knight Riders CEO Venky Mysore has stated the IPL franchise has ‘zero tolerance’ in direction of any sort of discrimination that means their captain Eoin Morgan and coach Brendon McCullum might every face sanctions for historic tweets mocking Indian accent.
During an change on social media in 2018, Morgan and England batter Jos Buttler used ‘Sir’ to mock Indian followers. The duo was then joined by former New Zealand captain McCullum.
The dialog has come to limelight once more with England debutant Ollie Robinson being suspended pending investigation for his historic tweets deemed as sexist and racist.
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“We don’t know sufficient about it to remark presently. Let’s look forward to the method to be accomplished to get all of the information earlier than we leap to any conclusions. Just to reiterate, the Knight Riders organisation has ‘zero tolerance’ for any type of discrimination,” KKR CEO Venky Mysore told Cricbuzz.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has reiterated its stance against discrimination of any sort and said it will discuss how to proceed further on such instances of past comments in an appropriate manner.
“Since we were alerted to offensive tweets last week, a number of historical social media posts by other individuals have been questioned publicly as well,” Cricbuzz quoted an ECB spokesperson as saying.
“There isn’t any place for discrimination in our sport, and we’re dedicated to taking related and applicable motion the place required. Given the considerations which have been raised are clearly now broader than a single case, the ECB will talk about how we take care of points over historic social media materials in a well timed and applicable method.”
ECB will consider each case on an individual basis.
“Each case will be considered on an individual basis, looking at all the facts. We will assess cases with the ECB before making further statements,” the spokesperson stated.
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