A second England cricketer is being investigated for historic “offensive” social media posts, cricket web site Wisden.com reported on Monday. Wisden stated it had uncovered a racist tweet however selected to not disclose the identification of the participant as a result of he was below 16 when it was posted.
He has been dominated out of choice for the second take a look at towards New Zealand beginning at Edgbaston on Thursday.
Although Robinson’s tweets haven’t been acquired properly, many have expressed shock on the magnitude of punishment he has been given by the ECB. “These were comments made more than a decade ago written by someone as a teenager and for which they’ve rightly apologised,” stated a spokesman for the prime minister.
On the opposite hand, that is what skipper Joe Root needed to say. “In regards to the stuff that’s happened off the field, it’s not acceptable within our game. We all know that. He addressed the dressing room straightaway. He obviously spoke to you guys and other media outlets straight away, fronted up to it.”
“He showed a lot of remorse from that point onwards. You can see it’s very genuine from how he’s been around the group and the team.”
The skipper stated that he was shocked and didn’t know initially how you can react.
“I couldn’t believe them (the tweets), personally. I didn’t really know how to take it on the surface. I think the most important thing is Ollie is part of this dressing room and we had to support him. We had to try and do everything that we could to give him an opportunity to learn and understand he has to do better,” he stated.
