Usman Khawaja, the Pakistan-born opening batter of Australian cricket, was seen enjoying with a black armband on his shoulder through the first Test towards Pakistan at Perth. This was Khawaja’s approach of protesting towards International Cricket Council (ICC)’s ban on his footwear that has ‘All Lives Are Equal’ slogan. Khawaja wished to indicate his solidarity with the individuals in Palestine who’re shedding their lives day-after-day through the ongoing conflict with Israel.
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Khawaja additionally wore the black armband to indicate solidarity with the Palestinians caught up within the battle in Gaza. The cricketer wished to bat together with his ‘peace message’ on his footwear through the 1st Test. However, ICC stopped him from doing that because the clothes and tools legislation doesn’t enable cricketers to write down something on their gears aside from pre-approved matter. Cricketers or the boards must take permission from ICC to permit any change.Â
Khawaja vows to maintain his battle up as he has spoken up on looking for permission to put on the identical controversial footwear within the Boxing day Test towards Pakistan.
ICC banned Usman Khawaja to put on these footwear however Uzi is sporting black armband immediately. #AUSvsPAK pic.twitter.com/cnTL8fjPtw
— Ahmad Haseeb (@iamAhmadhaseeb) December 14, 2023
He posted a video on his social media handles through which he mentioned that lots of people are towards his stand of propagating the peaceable message, terming it ‘political’. Khawaja mentioned that every one he desires to say that he’s supporting all lives.
Khawaja mentioned that he helps Black Lives Matter, earlier than including that many cricketers have written slogans on their footwear earlier than.
“I’m in full support of Black Lives Matter. There’s plenty of guys who have written on their shoes before,” Khawaja informed Fox Sports. “There’s other guys that have written religious things on their equipment, and under the ICC guidelines, that’s not technically allowed, but the ICC never says anything on that. I find it a little bit disappointing they came down hard on me and they don’t always come down hard on everyone else.”
Australian captain Pat Cummins has additionally backed his teammate Khawaja amid the controversy. After informing that Khawaja will not be sporting the ‘footwear’, Cummins mentioned that I assist what’s written on the footwear.
“You want everyone to bring their own individual self to the team. And what was on the shoes — all lives are equal — I mean, I support that,” Cummins mentioned on Thursday.
“I think that’s not very divisive. I don’t think anyone can really have too many complaints about that,” Cummins had mentioned.
