Cricket
Cricket Australia is prepared to combat racism and stop an incident similar to that of Mohammed Siraj during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.


By Kajal Sharma - 04 Dec 2024 04:00 PM
The man behind Cricket Australia's Multicultural Action Plan, Michael Napper, outlines the steps they have taken to educate immigrants about Australian culture and recruit students from the subcontinent to attend all kinds of cricket matches.A local cricket fan was carrying a banner that said, "Benson & Hedges Final: Bus Drivers versus Tram Conductors," during the Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket final match between Australia and India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. During 2020–21, a group of Australian spectators threw a string of racist epithets at India pacer Mohammed Siraj, including "Brown Dog" and "Big Monkey." Cricket Australia created the Multicultural Action Plan with the express purpose of combating racism.First and foremost, I believe we must recognize that racism is still there in society and hasn't disappeared. It remains. And regrettably, it will be there for a while," Michael Napper, the creator of Cricket Australia's program to interact with multicultural audiences, told The Indian Express from Melbourne."We understand that something shouldn't exist in sports. And it should simply be a location where everyone is welcome to join in the celebration.
Therefore, I fervently hope that we have gotten past all of those notorious occurrences," he says. Napper outlines the plan they have created to guarantee that racism has no place in Australian cricket at any level. There would be measures to guarantee that a fair procedure is followed, whether at the highest level or at the grassroots level.