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Here are more instances of cricket personalities hitting out at politics

Updated on: 17 November,2009 07:56 AM IST  | 
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Sachin Tendulkar's off-the-feild straight hit is not cricket's first

Here are more instances of cricket personalities hitting out at politics

Sachin Tendulkar's off-the-feild straight hit is not cricket's first


Sachin Tendulkar attracted the wrath of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray when he said Mumbai belongs to the whole ofu00a0 India.




Unparliamentary
After yet another defeat in South Africa, 2006, India coach Greg Chappell said he was not worried about the Parliamenta-rians' criticism of him. "I can't stop them from making comments, that's what they are paid for," he said.

ECB vs Mugabe
England's 2003 World Cup captain Nasser Hussain refused to shake Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's hand in any ceremony before the match in Zimbabwe. However, England ultimately did not travel to Zimbabwe for their match.

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief executive Tim Lamb said then: "We've made it perfectly clear that we are not going to put our players, Nasser Hussain or indeed myself, because I shall be out at the match in a situation where we have to shake hands with the President of Zimbabwe. If there is any suggestion that such a ceremony will be arranged, then we will decline to participate."

Angry Henry
Zimbabwe fast bowler Henry Olonga once wore a black armband in a World Cup match in protest of the policies adopted by the Zimbabwean government headed by Robert Mugabe. "In all the circumstances, we have decided that we will each wear a black armband for the duration of the World Cup. In doing so we are mourning the death of democracy in our beloved Zimbabwe," Olonga said.

Ian's opinion
Former Australian captain and MiD DAY columnist Ian Chappell raised concerns over Australia's refugee
policy. Chappelli was not impressed by the government's treatment of asylum seekers.
"If I feel that something is not right, I can't just sit back and hold my tongue," he said in 2003.

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