Daren Sammy has taken lots of potshots at his former teammates in IPL franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad for their racist comments when he was employed by the franchise back in the day.

He focused on the usage of the word “Kalu” which was seemingly used by his teammates for him and supposedly Thisara Perera as well. After watching Hasan Minhaj’s video, former West Indies skipper realized that he was a victim of casual racism during his IPL stint with SRH in 2013-14.   

Daren Sammy reveals "conversation" with an accused teammate after racial jibe

In an interview with ESPNCricinfo, Sammy talked about a birthday greeting he had sent out on Twitter to Laxman during his IPL stint. The tweet had the word ‘kalu’ in it when he used to believe that it meant ‘stallion’.

“I thought it meant a stallion. If you notice back in 2014 I sent a Happy Birthday tweet to VVS Laxman. I said: “Happy Birthday to you brother. I hope you have a great day.” And I started laughing. And I said, “Remember dark kalu,” Sammy said.

“So, imagine (now) you listening six years later and somebody from that culture telling you, “Hey, bro, this word has a degrading meaning to you because of the color of your skin.” Then automatically you want to have a conversation,” he clarified.

Sammy had revealed that one of the players has reached out to him and even then SRH coach Tom Moody has had a word with him.

“One of the guys (a 2013-14 Sunrisers teammate) has reached out to me and we are having a conversation about it. It’s someone I could bet still has a big poster of me and he hung up in his dressing room where I signed it and I said: “Brothers for life.” And I still mean that” Sammy said.

“But it doesn’t take away or change the fact that certain words that are being used could come across as degrading because of the color of your skin. And whether you are my friend or I see you as a brother, we will or we should have the conversation about that,” he added.