No you are right, it doesnt look great and although we had some top cricketers of colour play for us down the years, home grown very few.Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Mr Williams says..
"In 2020, former Glamorgan cricketer Mohsin Arif said in a Telegraph article that there had been preferential treatment for white players at the county"
The problem I have with this is that preferential treatment goes on all the time, whether in sport or any workplace.
Why does it have to be linked to racism?
It is also mentioned in the article that the Cardiff midweek league contained many Asian players but none "made it" so to speak.
I played a few games in that league myself and there were plenty of white talented cricketers who too were never "spotted".
I would agree though that the vast percentage of cricketers in Cardiff's leagues are Asian.
You see them playing in the streets and in Pontcanna fields all year round.
I would say that cricket was, and still is to a certain extent an elitist sport. It strikes me as a bit of a closed shop at the top level and if there were a bunch of talented youngsters on the shortlist, chances are the public school kid or the chairman's business partner's boy or the nephew of a former England player would get the nod.
To me, that's life.
It would be interesting to hear say Ravi Shastri's or Waqar Younis's view on their experience of possible racism during their time at the club or even Javed Miandad's.
I'm sure if the latter was a victim of racism he'd have sorted it out himself
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