AUS vs IND | Mohammed Siraj was not racially abused on the SCG, says Indian-Australian cricket fan
Image Source : AP Mohammed Siraj of India stops play to make a proper criticism to Umpire Paul Reiffel about some spectators within the bay behind his fielding place throughout day 4 of the Third Test match within the sequence between Australia and India at Sydney Cricket Ground on January 10
An Indian-Australian spectator who was among the many part of the gang who have been requested to go away the stand for alleged racial abuse of Indian gamers on the Sydney Cricket Ground on day 4 of the third Test between India and Australia defended the accused part of the gang, a complete of six folks, saying that he didn’t hear any racial taunts.
Prateik Kelkar, a Sydney resident, who was current on the SCG on day 4, in an interview with Sydney Morning Herald, stated that he was ejected for explaining to the police that Siraj was not racially abused.
“We got kicked out as well for sticking up for them, for saying that they didn’t say anything,” Kelkar advised the Herald. “[Siraj] was pissed off because he got hit for two sixes the previous over. He came to field on the boundary. He was copping it a bit and then they said: ‘Welcome to Sydney, Siraj’. Next thing we knew they were getting kicked out.”
“What I wanted was that both sides of that story be heard,” Kelkar stated. “It’s not truthful they’re getting vilified within the media once I can let you know they’ve completed nothing fallacious.
“I’m an Indian. I’ve been racially abused earlier than in Australia and I can let you know that it wasn’t [racial abuse]. As you’ll be able to inform from my accent, if there was one thing racist occurring, I’d have heard it and completed one thing about it.
It was within the 87th over of Australia’s second innings when the alleged incident occurred and Siraj was seen speaking to the on-field umpires who then made their technique to the Brewongle stand after which the police intervened and escorted the part of the gang out of the stadium.
Another spectator, Ben Grogan, a senior government within the NSW public sector, who was sitting behind these six folks, spoke on related strains.
“In all the footage I’m the guy in the pink and white shirt, with my son, two rows back from the six guys that got ejected,” he advised Sydney Morning Herald.
“They were just a real poor man’s Barmy Army sort of thing,” Grogan stated a few group of kids who have been earlier that afternoon requested to go away the SCG. “They were singing songs like, ‘We love you Jasprit, we do’. ‘Jasprit, give us a wave’, weaving his name into songs, stuff like that. There was no derogatory stuff but it was just constant. It wasn’t a great workplace but there was nothing racist.”
Meanwhile, each the groups condemned the act with the Australian group even apologising for the alleged crowd behaviour.