Keshav Maharaj: “No one is a racist within our team.” Other weeks, this may seem strange to reporters at a press conference.
However, this is a necessary disclaimer for anyone who has been to the changing rooms in South Africa since this Tuesday.
Quinton de Kock also said that after the team landed on the ground to play the West Indies in a T20 World Championship match in Dubai on Tuesday, Quinton de Kock also had a CSA policy that all members of the team would kneel before the match.
Regardless, he announced that he would refuse to play. de Kock has never played before.
45 hours later, the story twisted in many directions, including classifying de Kock as a racist, and he changed his mind and knelt in a statement.
It is not yet known if he will do so before the first ball is thrown in South Africa’s match against Sri Lanka in Sharjah on Saturday.
For now, we have Keshav Maharaj standing up for the character of his fellow players. “No one is a racist within our team,” Maharaj said on Friday (October 29). “We all support one another and respect everyone’s cultural, religious, and spiritual differences.”
As is often the case with people who do not live in racially divided societies, South Africa is not the most unequal country in the world.
“It’s been a tough week, but the boys are adult enough to adapt to the situation,” Maharaj said and sought to try and turn poison into positivity: “The spirits were really high at training today. There was that buzz and that drive back in the team after a long two days. Our focus is back on cricket.
“We’ve drawn a lot of inspiration from the way we’ve reacted to various situations that have been thrown at us in the past. This has made us bond and gel even more strongly. You’ll see a lot more energy than you have in the last two games. It has brought together.”
Enthusiasm for de Kock in the face of widespread criticism of his actions and omissions was sufficient evidence.
Maharaj said:
“I don’t have to knock on Quinny’s door,”
“We’re always in the team room together and chatting. I think he’s in a good space. It’s been a tough week for him, but he’s a very mature character. We’re having dinner tonight.”
Maharaj is brown. Was his relationship with de Kock influenced by the aftermath of what happened and what didn’t happen on Tuesday? Did you feel like you could still knock on the door of the man who was holding the bowling gate?
You need to wonder who will receive the invoice.
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