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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Australian cricketers face sanctions after ridiculing non-English speakers

  • Under-19 team members use ‘inappropriate language’
  • Cricket Australia investigate players’ social media posts

Some members of Australia’s Under-19 World Cup squad face sanctions for comments on social media that have been branded as casual racism. Cricket Australia’s head of integrity and security Sean Carroll has spoken with those players who recently posted broken-English responses to an Instagram post.

“We are extremely disappointed that some of the Australian Under-19 squad members have used inappropriate language in posts on social media, which we reported to the ICC as soon as it came to our attention,” Carroll said in a statement. “Some of that language could be interpreted as ridiculing non-native English language speakers.”

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