Former Pakistan all-rounder Abdul Razzaq is again within the information however for all of the mistaken causes. Razzaq is getting slammed on social media for his sexist remarks towards Pakistan girl cricketer Nida Dar. A clip of Razzaq’s latest interview on a Pakistan channel, the place he commented on Dar goes viral.
Dar and Razzaq have been each current as friends on a present on Pakistani information channel Neo News the place the subject of dialogue was ladies in sports activities. Razzaq casually made some sexist feedback about Dar’s look and her future within the sport after the latter spoke about her ardour for the sport.
Razzaq said ladies cricketers like Nida Dar aspire to be on the identical degree as the boys’s cricketers and need to show that they’ll do all the pieces. He then went on to make a particularly absurd remark as he acknowledged that Dar’s palms do not even really feel female and that feminine cricketers lose curiosity in marriage until the time they succeed within the sport.
“Their field is as such. When they become cricketers, they strive to be as equal as their male counterparts, if not better than them. They want to prove that not only men, but they can also do it as well. The feeling (to get married) is gone by the time they excel. If you shake her hands, you won’t even feel she’s a girl,” Razzaq said on the present.
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Shameful ridicule of a younger cricket participant by Abdul Razzaq. When you’ve gotten performed for the nationwide staff & have some degree of respect, you must use that to encourage younger cricketers, particularly ladies, as a substitute of shaming them based mostly on gender stereotypes.pic.twitter.com/CtemldIcNb
— Usama Khilji (@UsamaKhilji) July 14, 2021
Nida Dar ought to have slammed these folks proper there. The saddest half is girl in pink was simply as complicit as others. Who provides Razzak the precise to make enjoyable of a junior simply because she’s a girl? Imagine what would have been the response if it was the opposite means round. https://t.co/muLKpD6kZy
— Ariba Jalbani (@AribaJB) July 15, 2021
Dar had an ideal response to Razzaq’s feedback on her palms and her look as she defined as a cricketer, they must endure comparable kind of coaching as males and work out with the identical depth to make sure they are often on prime of their sport on the sphere. Dar’s response was hailed by many on Twitter.
“Our profession is such that we have to do batting, bowling and every other thing [that the sport requires] which needs fitness, so yes your body does become hard. If I hadn’t been a cricketer, I would have definitely been a [sports] professional of some sort,” said Dar.
The 34-year-old Nida Dar had made her worldwide debut for Pakistan in 2010 and is among the most skilled gamers within the staff. She has performed 80 ODIs and 108 T20Is for the nation, selecting up a complete of 175 wickets throughout codecs. She has additionally scored 1150 and 1207 runs within the two codecs respectively.
