Australia’s opening batter Usman Khawaja has been making headlines this month however not due to his cricketing achievements. Khawaja has been fairly vocal together with his stance on struggle between Israel and Palestine and maintains that peace needs to be restored in struggle torned Gaza. He was to put on a pair of footwear within the first Test vs Pakistan that learn ‘All Lives Are Equal’. But a last-minute name taken by International Cricket Council citing the Clothing and Equipment Law.
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As pe the regulation, no cricketer can put on something on the cricket subject besides what’s allowed beneath the foundations. Khawaja posted a video on his social media, saying that he was not going to put on the controversial footwear however will certainly look to get the permission to play with them.
Khawaja additionally stated, in the identical video, that some individuals had been attempting to make it a political matter when all that he was saying is that each one lives on this world, regardless of race or faith, are vital and no life, particularly of kids, needs to be misplaced.
The opening batter wore black armband in the course of the first Test. Turns out, Khawaja didn’t have the required permission to even put on that. News Corp reported that ICC allowes cricketers to put on the black armband solely when a cricketer goes by means of a private bereavement. In Khawaja’s case, it was no such case.
The ICC’s clothes and gear laws state that: “In figuring out whether or not a message is for a ‘political, religious or racial cause’, the place to begin is that the ICC and its members acknowledge and agree that cricket needs to be used as a device to deliver individuals and communities all over the world collectively and never as a platform to attract consideration to probably divisive political points, rhetoric or agendas.
“Each case must be considered on its own facts and the ICC will take into account all relevant circumstances, including (as it sees fit): (a) the views of any other relevant team or individual; (b) the likely sentiment and response in the media to the message in all relevant countries; (c) whether the message is a ‘one-off’ or whether it is to be displayed for a longer period; (d) the purpose and impact of conveying the message,” the laws proceed.
A Khawaja-like case had occurred in the course of the 2003 World Cup, when Zimbabwe cricketers Henry Olonga and Andy Flower had wore black armbands to protest the happenings of their nation by the federal government. Back then, the Zimababweans had been let off by match referee Malcolm Speed who instructed the cricketers that they had been in breach however no motion was going to happen towards them.
