Above: cricket is as English as fish and chips (?).
Very muted coverage in the Guardian today of the England victory over India at the Oval, with an enigmatic announcement in the top left of the front page (will mean nothing to someone who does not follow cricket) and then almost buried coverage on pages 6 and 7 of the Sports section - I suspect had India beaten England they would have put a main article and picture on the front page.
Annoying item by Sarfraz Manzoor on Newsnight yesterday complaining that asians (by which he seemed to mean Muslims) were under-represented in English cricket. No doubt his thirst for representative equality is very laudable. But when investigating the "hundreds" of asian cricket teams in the Birmingham area did he ask other pertinent questions about equality, for instance how many gay players were welcomed into these asian teams?
If it is allowable to imply that English cricket is institutionally racist, surely it is also reasonable to ask whether asian cricket is institutionally homophobic.
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