After Indian fast bowler, Mohammed Siraj on Sunday complained about a certain group of viewers objectionable comments, which led to the security officials and New South Wales (NSW) Police taking charge and removing six fans from the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), several former and active cricketers have expressed their condemnation of this act in the ground.
Many took to their social media account to express that they are completely against such occurrences on the playing round.
However, former Pakistani speedster Shoaib Akhtar shared his own experience when he was actually called a terrorist during a cricket match by the crowd. Akhtar uploaded his video in solidarity with Mohammed Siraj who faced racial abuse and lashed out at the Australian crowd who get involved in such kinds of incidents.
Akhtar in his video said, "Racism is not going to end, it has been going on from the past and will continue to happen in the future. Some foolish people often get involved in such kinds of incidents. Siraj was abused, mocked, and called by names. Honestly speaking, after 9/11, the Muslims faced too much racism. 60 people got involved in terrorism but 160 billion people had to face racism due to islamophobia. The international media hyped the incident so much that 1.6 billion people seemed as terrorists. The reason why I am saying this is because this is one of the reasons why Siraj faced racism."
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"Everything and everyone is the creation of Allah (God) whether he is Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Black, White, Brown, Chinese, or Japenese. We toured many countries. when I was which country are you from, then they reacted like 'Oh! Osama Bin Laden's Country'. When we went to the cricket field, I was called terrorist in 2002. I will not take the country's name as it will be wrong. What happened with Siraj was very unfortunate. There are few people who gonna come out and give a bad name to Australia. BCCI must take strict action. PCB and BCCI should come together and demand to make a stricter law against racism."