One of the BCCI officials has alleged that the Indian fast bowler, Mohammed Siraj was referred to as a “Brown Dog” and “Big Monkey” by some of the members of the Australian crowd while passing some series of racist slurs at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Siraj and his senior teammate Jasprit Bumrah were also subjected to consistent racist slurs on Saturday, something that the Indian team management officially reported to ICC Match Referee David Boon.
One of the sources of PTI in BCCI said, “Siraj was referred to as ‘Brown Dog’ and ‘Big Monkey’ both of which are racist slurs. The matter was immediately brought to the notice of on-field umpires. They were constantly abusing Bumrah too.”
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On Sunday, during the 86th over of the Australian second innings, Siraj was seen walking from his position in the deep and talking to the square-leg umpire before the straight umpire and other senior players joined the discussion. As a result of the incident, a play was halted for close to 10 minutes before stadium security as well as New South Wales Police checked in to the relevant stand from where the nasty comments were being hurled at.
After speaking to the spectators in the concerned area, the police evicted six supporters, who are currently in the custody of New South Wales Police. It is learned that on Saturday, Team India made sure that the match officials get to know about the issue after the third day’s play ended and by then the mischief-mongers had fled the stadium.
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Explaining the same, the source added, “Actually, the players didn’t want to lose focus during the proceedings and decided that the matter would be reported only after the day’s play was over. However, umpires have told us that moment anything of that nature happens, the players should report immediately.”
Cricket Australia has promised the strongest action against the offenders and also unreservedly apologized to the visiting team.
