On Friday, the ICC has posted a video clip of 90 minutes in which England won the ICC World Cup last year in which Barbados-born Joffra Archer bowling the thrilling Super Over against New Zealand.
ICC tweeted that “Without diversity, cricket is nothing. Without diversity, you don’t get the full picture”.
The England team that won the ODI World Cup had an Irish captain (Eoin Morgan). One of the best performing men was New Zealand born all-rounder Ben Stokes, spinners were of Pakistani descent Moin Ali and Adil Rashid and the innings came from an opener of South African heritage Jason Roy.
“It actually epitomises our team. Quite diverse backgrounds and cultures and guys grow up in different countries and to actually find humour in the situation we were in at times was pretty cool,” Morgan said.
Two West Indies players Chris Gayle and Darren Sammy also spoke about the racism in the game. On Tuesday, Sammy urged to ICC to come out in support of the black cricketers.
“Right now, if the cricket world not standing against the injustice against people of color after seeing that last video of that foot down the next of my brother you are also part of the problem,” Sammy had said.
