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Michael Holding message on Black Lives Matter: Michael Vaughan, Jimmy Neesham, Aakash Chopra and others laud West Indian legend on Twitter

Dixit Bhargav
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Michael Holding message on Black Lives Matter: Michael Vaughan, Jimmy Neesham, Aakash Chopra and others laud West Indian legend on Twitter

Michael Holding message on Black Lives Matter: Former West Indian fast bowler inspires the cricketing fraternity with educational message on racism.

Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding has allured the attention of the cricketing fraternity on the back of his nearly five-minute long message on needing to educate communities with respect to racism.

Speaking before the start of the first Test of West Indies’ tour of England at the Ageas Bowl, Holding didn’t feel shy about touching topics such as religion, white privilege and brainwashing by citing anecdotes from the past stating how narratives have been against the black community.

The powerful video has been uploaded on the Twitter handle of Sky Sports Cricket and has received immense love and support from both current and former cricketers, broadcasters and plentiful fans on the same platform.

It is worth mentioning that both the teams will be supporting the ‘Black Lives Matter’ badge on their jerseys in this series to raise awareness and support the protest which had happened after the killing of George Floyd in United States weeks ago.

Previously, prominent cricketers such as Daren Sammy, Chris Gayle, Kevin Pietersen and many others had expressed their support regarding the matter.

Michael Holding message on Black Lives Matter

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Dixit Bhargav

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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