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• HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED
• YOU WILL BE SHOCKED TO KNOW THE INDIAN CRICKETERS ARE GAYS!
• OPENLY GAY CRICKETERS
• FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY
• 'BRAVE' CRICKETER DAVI REVEALS HE IS GAY
• ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY
• GAY CRICKET STAR ALEX BLACKWELL SAYS SHE’S TIRED OF LBIANS SPORT BEG ‘PROFILED AS PREDATORS’
• ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY

HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY

Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis has bee the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly speak about beg, 50, played five Tts and 11 one-day ternatnals for the Black Caps between 1994 and 1997 and was known as an timidatg, if nsistent, pace s after his Tt but, Davis publicly revealed his sexualy for the first time, an episo of the documentary seri Scratched: Aotearoa’s Lost Sportg first ternatnal male cricketer to e out publicly was the former England wicketkeeper Steven Davi was durg Davis’s first tour to England 1994 when he started to really disver himself, he told The Spoff, though he had told his mother at an early age he was gay. ”He gused some of his teammat knew he was gay before he told a uple of them 1997 but he was never qutned about . “I certaly wasn’t livg a gay life, wasn’t part of the scene, didn’t have a partner.

GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED

There was nothg to tie to, if you know what I mean, ” Davis entered his first gay relatnship when he was 27 years old, while playg for Wellgton, but he was reluctant to appear public as a uple. When an offer of a ntract me om Auckland, Davis saw an opportuny to move away om the cy he did not felt fortable beg out the uple ma the move to Auckland, Davis told his new team’s manager he was gay, which was passed on to his team members and “didn’t seem to be that big an issue” is now on a new journey – one that exists tensn wh his sexualy. Photograph: supplied by Heath DavisAn ternatnal study on homophobia sport, released May, revealed that New Zealand gay and bisexual men were the most likely to keep their sexualy secret both youth and adult sports, wh many sayg they feared bullyg om teammat and discrimatn om ach and than half of all participants believed team sport is more homophobic than the rt of New Zealand society, while gay men were much more likely to believe this (69%) than anyone Wellgton Firebirds player, Stephen Mather, said Davis told him about his sexualy 1997, when there were no other outwardly gay men playg first class cricket at that time.

YOU WILL BE SHOCKED TO KNOW THE INDIAN CRICKETERS ARE GAYS!

”Homophobic attus sport still very much exist, said Malee Chapman, The Spoff’s edor and producer of the documentary seri. Three s after his Tt but, Heath Davis has bee the first male New Zealand ternatnal cricketer to e out as pots:Heath Davis played five Tts and 11 one day ternatnals for the Black CapsHe said his club teammat Auckland were aware that he was gayDavis is one of very few men's cricketers to e out, followg English wicketkeeper Steven Davi 2011Davis played five Tts and 11 One Day Internatnals (ODIs) for the Black Caps, and had a lengthy first-class reer domtic cricket as a fiery pace bowler. "Everyone Auckland knew I was gay, the team, but didn't seem to be that big an issue, " he said.

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OPENLY GAY CRICKETERS

Gay sportsmen.

Cricketer Steve Davi is the first and only English male pro to e out as gay. Gay cricket ach and activist Sam Schofield has cricised the England and Wal Cricket Board (ECB) for “lettg down” the LGBTQ+ muny. After Jake Daniels beme England’s first pro male footballer to e out as gay more than three s, Schofield spoke of the need for more LGBTQ+ role mols cricket.

FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY

Comparatively, the women’s divisn has players like Natalie Sciver and Kathere Bnt, an openly gay cricketer uple.

'BRAVE' CRICKETER DAVI REVEALS HE IS GAY

But what if we assumed our fashnista Indian cricketers to be Gay! Our film world has yet to see an ‘official’ gay uple and even if there is none, here is OUR pairg that n su you bt. Virat might be a ‘relatnship’ wh Anhka Sharma but he were to be gay, we uld easily p him agast latter’s former flame, Ranveer Sgh.

ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY

Ishant Sharma – Kunal KapoorIf we are lookg for a perfect life-partner for Ishant Sharma (here gay), then our heads turn to none other than Kunal Kapoor. Openly gay cricketers? Apart om Alex Blackwell and Steven Davi, are there any other openly gay cricketers?

Are there any openly gay cricketers playg today?

GAY CRICKET STAR ALEX BLACKWELL SAYS SHE’S TIRED OF LBIANS SPORT BEG ‘PROFILED AS PREDATORS’

Or any openly gay retired cricketers for that matter? If 's an unnfirmed report then the player isn't openly gay is he? Perhaps I word my post clumsily - the player ncerned, as I unrstand , is known to be gay throughout the game, well his own drsg room at least so to that extent is openly so - but the prs eher don't know, don't re, or, hopefully, jt don't thk s important enough to mentn - though I doubt the latter tbh.

BTW I prume the OP was referrg to openly gay male cricketers rather than femal. Partly I reckon - and here I am guilty of a whoppg great assumptn - that cricket is a sport that is ls likely to attract gay men than many sports, and more likely to attract gay women.

ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY

Perhaps the more important factor is that there seems to be much ls of a taboo about gay women sport than gay men, so more women than men feel happy to be "out".