England's Ollie Robinson banned from int'l cricket for old offensive tweets

[Texy]

pretty irresponsible.

 

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[AuxiliA]

The Asian and Muslim ones are bad. But how are the other 2 offensive? 

[sage]

way over the top for tweets 10 years ago 

[Lone Wolf]

Too harsh..  That means he'll miss Tests against India too most likely. 

PR overdrive by ECB. 

And most hilarious thing is Overton will get benefitted from this the most...  Another one accused of racist slurs lol

[Gollum]

Overreaction. People do stupid stuff on SM all the time, especially teenagers. He apologized for something he did 10 years back, that's enough....but we live in a PC world. 

 

Who knows he may be a wonderful person in real life!!!!

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

for a 10 yr old tweet

[Jimmy Cliff]

 

 

[Norman]

[ShoonyaSifar]

The cancel culture at work. The guy tweeted these things 8-10 years back, has apologised. Move on.

[sage]

Government minister unhappy with ECB

 

 

[Suhaan]

40 minutes ago, sage said:

Government minister unhappy with ECB

 

 

Well said

[msb1991]

Potentially he is being suspended to investigate whether there are more recent indications of offensive speech or behaviour. I think what the ECB don't want to do is hand out a mild punishment (e.g., a fine) and then more things come to light which they have to then also address. This feels a sensible rationale for suspension. I think if the investigation concludes then he could well be back for the second Test or the next Test after that. 

 

As far as I'm aware, it is not a "ban" but rather a suspension pending an investigation. I think if the investigation shows no more recent poor behaviour then the punishment will be fairly moderate. 

[goose]

Thousands of middle white aged men walking up to news not only are they not good enough to play for England but too racist too.

Edited June 7, 2021 by goose

[goose]

6 minutes ago, sarchasm said:

And then you have the BCCI. Bend over backward to accommodate players from white countries in IPL who openly mock Indians on social media. Just came to know of some sad tweets from Morgan, Butter, Mccullum. Flat out disgusting that these barely disguised racists earn their bread in India while mocking Indians.

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[BacktoCricaddict]

2 minutes ago, sarchasm said:

This tweet here has a few samples

 

 

Too lazy to look this up, but there was something similar from Ish Sodhi and another Kiwi player a few yrs ago.  

[goose]

6 hours ago, sarchasm said:

This tweet here has a few samples

 

 

 

interesting. just very poor taste to sh%t in your adoring fans.

 

 

Edited June 7, 2021 by goose

[coffee_rules]

 

[MechEng]

People need to lighten up, we are all sterilizing humans into humanoid bots following the strict politically correct algorithm.

[Franco Vazquez]

2 hours ago, sarchasm said:

This tweet here has a few samples

 

 

What’s wrong with the tweets? It’s not racist, that’s like saying Kohli or Shastri are racist bc they use fake American accent in their English.

[Sgattick10]

41 minutes ago, Franco Vazquez said:

What’s wrong with the tweets? It’s not racist, that’s like saying Kohli or Shastri are racist bc they use fake American accent in their English.

Hayn! When did Kohli or Shastri use fake american accent...there accent is very much an Indian speaking English.