British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has backed comments made by his culture secretary that the country's cricket board has been too heavy-handed suspending bowler Ollie Robinson for historical racist and sexist tweets
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has backed comments made by his culture secretary that the country's cricket board has been too heavy-handed suspending bowler Ollie Robinson for historical racist and sexist tweets
7 June 2021
The posts, from 2012 and 2013 when Robinson was a teenager, were revealed as he made his England debut during the drawn first test against New Zealand at Lord's.
He's been dropped for the second test, which begins at Edgbaston on Thursday night, pending an investigation.
Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has urged the ECB to "think again".
Prime Minister Johnson apologised in 2019 for suggesting Muslim women wearing burkas "look like letter boxes" and comparing them to "bank robbers" in a Daily Telegraph story the previous year.
On a flatter wicket, the Black Caps have arrived safely in Birmingham.
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