The 2020/21 Border-Gavaskar trophy remains maybe the most iconic episode of Indian cricket history. From getting bowled out for 36 in Adelaide to breaching the fortress that Gabba has been for the house facet, the sequence wasn’t lacking in drama even for a single moment.
The recollections of keeping the trophy are still new, but there’s one particular incident that rocked the overall cricketing world: the racial abuse Mohammed Siraj faced in Sydney.
Whereas fielding in the deep, Siraj needed to endure racial abuse from some followers who had been sitting accurate in the support of the boundary. It went on non-stop for about a days sooner than Siraj, who used to be every so often called a “brown monkey,” sooner or later reported the incident to his captain Ajinkya Rahane.
When Rahane complained to the umpire, he used to be requested to present a walkout. He, nonetheless, didn’t oblige and instead ensured the abusers are evicted from Sydney Cricket Ground.
“When Siraj got here to me [on the fourth day, after being abused the day before], I urged the umpires that [they] prefer to take motion and we won’t play till then,” acknowledged Ajinkya Rahane, who used to be display veil on the start of Bandon Me Tha Dum, a documentary on India’s historic 2-1 rob in Australia.
“The umpires acknowledged that you may maybe maybe well’t stall the game and may maybe maybe stroll out ought to you admire to trust. We acknowledged that we’re here to play and not take a seat in the dressing room and insisted