Mohammad Kaif criticized the media house ‘The Wire’
Former Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif, one of the best fielders India has ever produced, who is particularly remembered for his scintillating knock in the final of Nat West Series at the famous cricket ground Lords in London 2002 in which the then Captain of Indian Cricket Team Sourav Ganguly took off his shirts, also remains in news quite often for his tweets.
This time around, his tweet on the post of the media house ‘The Wire’ which has published a report pointing out the lack of SC/ST representation in the test cricket has attracted a lot of traction with many people appreciating the staunch reply of the Mohammad Kaif.
In the 86 years since India attained Test status, only 4 out of 290 players belong to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. https://t.co/bhf8dO7T6H
— The Wire (@thewire_in) July 26, 2018
Mohammad Kaif lambasted at the media house with the following tweet.
How many prime time journalists are SC or ST or for that matter how many senior editors in your organisation are SC or ST. Sports is perhaps one field which has successfully broken barriers of caste,players play with inclusiveness but then we have such journalism to spread hatred https://t.co/ludDNpPi3x
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) July 29, 2018
Most of the Twitterites also seemed in support of the Mohammad Kaif.
The issue of lack of representation of SC and ST players not having the representation in the national side of Test Cricket Team had also been raised the veteran journalist Rajdeep Sardesai in his book “Democracy’s XI”.
The reason for success of French football is a bit like ours in cricket: we have ‘democratised’ the sport just as the French have built a multi-cultural football identity. But we need to do more: only 4 Dalits have played for India since 1947 and no Adivasi test champ yet!
— Citizen/नागरिक/Dost Rajdeep (@sardesairajdeep) July 16, 2018
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