After suspending Ollie Robinson for some of his racist and sexist tweets dating back to 2012-13, ECB is reportedly investigating one more current England player for his old posts on the micro-blogging site.
The old tweets of the player in question were dug by wisden.com, which chose to obscure the identity of the player as he had not reached the age of 16 at that time.
The website shared screenshots of the tweet without disclosing the player’s name.
“…….your going out with a asian,” the player had posted with hashtags of #asianthroughhandthrough # hweollo #chinky.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is now probing the matter.
“It has been brought to our attention that an England player has posted historic offensive material on their social media account. We are looking into it and will make a further comment in due course,” an ECB spokesperson was quoted as saying by wisden.com.
The racial tweet came to the limelight hours after the ECB suspended Robinson pending an investigation into his racist tweets from years ago.
ECB took the decision despite Robinson, who made his Test debut against New Zealand at Lord’s last week, tendered an unconditional public apology.
England’s Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, however, called ECB’s decision “over the top” while country’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson also endorsed his views.
Dowden cited that Robinson’s tweets were a decade old, “written by a teenager” but agreed that they were offensive and wrong.
(Inputs from wisden.com.)
