‘Who can blame him’: Usman Khawaja calls out cricket hypocrisy

Usman Khawaja has remained unyielding against three consecutive rejections from the ICC to stop him from displaying personal motifs on the playing field. The Australian Test Batsman took to Instagram to call out the ICC’s hypocrisy on rejecting his requests but it allowing other cricketers to display the Hindu ‘Om’ symbol, an angelic cross, and a verse from the Bible. “Who can blame him? Cricket Australia has done this to itself,” says commentator Jason Morrison. “Go back one chief executive of Cricket Australia and we wanted to abandon Australia Day because we were worried it would upset certain people, so we kind of did away with the Australia Day weekends,” he told Sky News contributor Gary Hardgrave. “So politics has been weaved – no, no, not weaved, pushed into cricket for a long time.”