Retired Jamaican quick bowler Michael Holding feels that Ollie Robinson shouldn’t be severely punished for his historic racist and sexist tweets if an investigation proves he has modified his behaviour since then.
Robinson has been dominated out of England’s second take a look at in opposition to New Zealand beginning at Edgbaston on Thursday after historic tweets got here to mild final week when he made his take a look at debut at Lord’s. In an interview to Sky Sports on Tuesday, Holding stated that the ECB had taken the appropriate plan of action.
“[It was] eight, nine years ago. Can the ECB then find out please, if beyond that time, Robinson has kept on behaving like that, saying things like that, tweeting things like that?” Holding stated. “Because I used to be a younger man as soon as, I did plenty of garbage as a teenager, and as you undergo life you study and recognise ‘Oh, perhaps what I did at 18 doesn’t apply now, I can’t behave like that now’.
“If he has carried out one thing like that 9 years in the past, and since then he has learnt and he has carried out nothing like that and he has modified his methods lately, then I don’t suppose you need to come down too exhausting on him.
“Yes, suspend him because you want to investigate. You don’t allow him to continue playing, like on Thursday, while an investigation is going on at the same time, because if you find out things that are horrible coming out in that investigation. But do it quickly, let’s get it over with quickly.”
💬”I used to be a younger man as soon as, I did plenty of garbage as a teenager, and as you undergo life you study.”💬
Michael Holding says Ollie Robinson shouldn’t be severely punished if an investigation into his historic offensive tweets proves he has modified his behaviour.
— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) June 8, 2021
England gamers have accepted Ollie Robinson’s apology for racist and sexist feedback he posted on social media as a youngster, quick bowler James Anderson stated on Tuesday. The 27-year-old quick bowler had apologised “unreservedly” within the dressing room for the 2012-13 Twitter posts and Anderson, England’s all-time main wicket-taker, informed reporters that was accepted.
“The language and things talked about are obviously not acceptable,” he added. “He stood up in front of the group and apologised, and you could see how sincere he was and how upset he was. As a group, we appreciate that he’s a different person now. He has done a lot of maturing and growing since then and he’s got the full support of the team.”
The ECB can be investigating a second England cricketer for historic “offensive” social media posts, cricket web site Wisden.com reported on Monday.
