Former Test tempo bowler Heath Davis has develop into the primary male New Zealand worldwide cricketer to come back out as homosexual, nonetheless a rarity within the skilled sport.
Davis, now 50 and dwelling in Australia, performed 5 exams and 11 one-day internationals from 1994 to 1997 in addition to having fun with a prolonged home profession as a fast however erratic quick bowler.
“I felt there was this part of my life that I was hiding,” he stated in an interview with on-line journal The Spinoff.
“There was a lot of that, just keeping your personal life separate. It was lonely … I was repressing it, I wasn’t living a gay life.”
Davis stated life improved after a transfer from his native Wellington to play home cricket within the extra cosmopolitan metropolis of Auckland in 1997.
“I felt there was this part of my life I needed to express, I was sick of hiding it,” he added.
“Everyone in Auckland knew I was gay, in the team, but it didn’t seem to be that big an issue … I just felt free.”
Former England wicketkeeper Steven Davies grew to become the primary male worldwide cricketer to publicly come out as homosexual in early 2011.