The black dove emblem on Khawaja’s bat and the corresponding placement on his proper shoe featured a reference to Article One of many Common Declaration of Human Rights: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They’re endowed with motive and conscience and may act in direction of each other in a spirit of brotherhood.”
Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers Affiliation had accredited Khawaja’s use of the black dove emblem with an olive department for the Take a look at starting on December 26. Nonetheless, the ICC rejected it, citing potential violation of clause F within the “Clothes and Gear Laws” inside its Taking part in Situations.
However on Monday, Khawaja uploaded a reel on Instagram with Kanye West’s ‘Cannot Inform Me Nothing’ track operating within the background as he identified “double requirements” from the ICC. “Merry Christmas all people. Typically you simply gotta snicker. Cya on Boxing Day! #inconsistent #doublestandards,” he wrote, with a facepalm emoji, within the caption.
Within the reel, Khawaja had included photographs of West Indies wicketkeeper-batter Nicholas Pooran placing a cross and the phrase “imagine” on his bat, in addition to of his teammate, top-order batter Marnus Labuschagne sporting an eagle emblem and bible verse on his bat. It was adopted by South Africa’s left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj sporting an ‘om’ emblem on the entrance of his bat, just under the bat producer sticker.
Khawaja had beforehand been stopped from carrying the slogans “All lives are equal” and “Freedom is a human proper” on his sneakers throughout Australia’s first Take a look at in opposition to Pakistan at Perth, in an try to boost consciousness in regards to the Gaza humanitarian disaster. He did put on a black armband through the match however was reprimanded by the ICC for doing so.
On Monday, Australia Take a look at captain Pat Cummins backed opener Usman Khawaja’s stance over sporting the dove emblem. “Probably not, no – I do not know the ins and outs of the appliance, however I feel it’s fairly vanilla, a dove. We actually assist Uzzy, I feel he is standing up for what he believes, and I feel he is doing it actually respectfully.”
“All lives are equal, and I do not assume that is very offensive, and I would say the identical in regards to the dove. That is Uzzy. He can maintain his head excessive the way in which he is gone about it, however there are guidelines in place, so I imagine the ICC have mentioned they are not going to approve that. They make up the foundations and you have to settle for it.”
“I’ve spoken to Uzzy a good bit. I will not go into too (a lot into its) depth, but it surely’s actually much like what he is mentioned publicly. He simply sees all lives as equal. He sees the warfare there as a waste, and there is plenty of loss that he is making an attempt to shine a lightweight on that he thinks is not needed. We assist him,” he mentioned.
(With IANS Inputs)
