Former Indian wicket-keeper batsman, Farokh Engineer, who used to play for Lancashire strongly feels that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is right to punish the young fast bowler, Ollie Robinson for his old racist and sexist tweets when he was a teenager. Engineer is also surprised that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and sports minister Oliver Dowden had criticized the ECB’s decision to suspend Robinson for-decade-old tweets.

In an interview with the Indian Express, Farokh Engineer said: “I am reading in the papers about Boris Johnson. I think it is absolute rubbish for a prime minister to lend his name to such a statement. Punish the fellow (Robinson). I think the ECB has done absolutely the right thing by suspending him. He has committed an error of judgment; he should pay for it. It will be a deterrent.”

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Robinson made an impressive Test debut and managed to scalp seven wickets against New Zealand at the Lord’s last week. But his performance was overshadowed after his tweets from 2012-13 resurfaced on social media. He received suspension right after the first Test match. The 27-year-old has apologized “unreservedly” for those tweets, which went viral on social media last week.

Farokh Engineer recalls when he faced casual racism when he first moved to England in 1966-67. According to a Wisden report, Engineer feels ECB should be setting an example of Robinson and the other unnamed England cricketer who allegedly made a racist tweet as a teenager.

On a recent podcast with stand-up comedian, TV anchor, and presenter Cyrus Broacha, Engineer talked about how former England opener Geoffrey Boycott was often heard saying ‘bloody Indians.’

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Farokh Engineer further explained, “We were all ‘bloody Indians’ to them till a few years ago. Now once the IPL started, they are all licking our backsides. It amazes me that just because of the money, they are licking our boots now. But people like me know what their true colours were initially. Now they suddenly changed their tunes. India is a good country to go for a few months and do some television work, if not play and make money.”