{"id":355566,"date":"2023-12-25T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T21:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=355566"},"modified":"2023-12-26T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T00:02:03","slug":"tubbys-issue-as-khawaja-blasts-double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=355566","title":{"rendered":"Tubby's issue as Khawaja blasts 'double standards'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Australian cricket<\/a> captain Mark Taylor<\/a> agrees with Usman Khawaja<\/a>'s peace protest, but says the opening batter has "made his point".<\/p>\n

Khawaja is butting heads with the International Cricket Council<\/a> over his attempts to display peaceful messages on his gear during the Test series against Pakistan.<\/p>\n

He was banned from displaying the words "freedom is a human right" and "all lives are equal" on his kit<\/a> ahead of the first Test.<\/p>\n

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He opted to instead wear a black armband, which the ICC also clamped down on.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/p>\n

And in recent days, the ICC has again warned the Aussie opener not to display a dove symbol on his bat<\/a> as he did during a training session – a symbol of peace in some cultures.<\/p>\n

On Monday night Khawaja posted to Instagram a video of several cricketers displaying peace symbols previously, with the caption "sometimes you just gotta laugh" and the words "inconsistent" and "double standards".\ufeff<\/p>\n

While Taylor is in agreeance with Khawaja's stance on the ongoing Gaza war, the legend can also see it from the ICC's perspective.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI think Usman is making a very good point in all the statements he's making, but I think he's actually made his point," Taylor told Nine's Today<\/em> ahead of the second Test in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

"The ICC\ufeff, they want to set some boundaries on what players can and can't do. So I can see a little bit of both sides to the story.<\/p>\n

"I think any reasonable minded person can see Uzzie is making a very good point.<\/p>\n

"I hope it doesn't \ufeffovershadow the game."<\/p>\n

Khawaja's teammates have gone into bat for the opener amid his battle with the governing body.<\/p>\n

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Aussie captain Pat Cummins was at a loss to explain the ICC's issue with the dove symbol.<\/p>\n

"I don't know the ins and outs of the application, but I think it is pretty vanilla, a dove," Cummins said on Monday.<\/p>\n

"We really support Uzzie, I think he's standing up for what he believes and I think he's doing it really respectfully. All lives are equal and I don't think that's very offensive, and I'd say the same about the dove.<\/p>\n

"That's Uzzie. He can hold his head high the way he's gone about it, but there's rules in place, so I believe the ICC have said they're not going to approve that. They make up the rules and you've got to accept it."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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