AUS vs PAK 1st Test: The first match of the three-Test series between Australia and Pakistan is going to start from December 14. This match will be played on the world’s fastest and bounciest pitch, Perth in Australia. Australia has announced its playing eleven for this match, and once again the responsibility of opening batting has been handed over to Usman Khawaja. However, even before the start of the match, a controversy has arisen with Usman.
Usman’s shoes created a ruckus
Actually, Usman was practicing on the field before entering the first Test match against Pakistan, when the cameraman noticed his shoe, in which a slogan was written in support of the victims of Gaza being killed in the Israel-Palestine war. Was. Usman has written on his shoes, “Everyone’s life is equal”. This slogan written on Osman’s shoes is for the suffering children, women and other innocent people killed and still dying in Gaza.
Usman Khawaja might be stopped from taking the field on Day 1 of the Perth Test unless he removes the pro Palestine slogan from his shoes.
Cricket Australia has supported Khawaja, but ICC prohibits the display of personal messages. (The Age). pic.twitter.com/JYRd3aBfJt
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) December 13, 2023
After this action of Usman, a controversy has started in the media. According to a report in The Age, Cricket Australia has supported Usman Khawaja’s move, but the ICC has objected to it, and has said that any personal opinion other than cricket should be kept off the field. According to a report by Code Sports, former Australian cricketer Simon O’Donnell has responded to this issue by saying that Usman should express his personal views on his platform, but when he is representing Australia, he should express his views. There is no right to bring forward personal beliefs and impose them on others.
Serious doubts have emerged over whether Usman Khawaja will be permitted to proceed with his pro-Palestinian stand, with Simon O’Donnell declaring he has no right to bring his personal beliefs into the sport.#AUSVPAK
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— CODE Cricket (@codecricketau) December 13, 2023
Usman supported Gaza earlier also
It is worth noting that earlier too, Usman had supported the victims of Gaza in a post on his social media, when he was getting his injured daughter treated in a hospital in Australia. Usman, while sharing his daughter’s picture in his Instagram post, had written that, a few days ago, my daughter Ayesha was allergic to an insect bite in the garden, after which we had to get Ayesha treated in the hospital. “I am grateful that he can get all the good arrangements in this hospital with electricity, water and ice treatment.”
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He had further said in his post, “It breaks my heart and brings tears to my heart to think that some children are in a much worse situation than this, and they cannot get all these facilities.” In such a situation, it has to be seen whether Usman comes on the field wearing the same shoes in the first test match against Pakistan, or removes that slogan from his shoes.