Joe Root praised for standg up to homophobia after tellg Wt Indi player: ‘Don't e as an sult. There's nothg wrong wh beg gay’ | The Inpennt | The Inpennt

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• JOE ROOT PRAISED FOR STANDG UP TO HOMOPHOBIA AFTER TELLG WT INDI PLAYER: ‘DON'T E AS AN SULT. THERE'S NOTHG WRONG WH BEG GAY’
• CHRIS GAYLE

JOE ROOT PRAISED FOR STANDG UP TO HOMOPHOBIA AFTER TELLG WT INDI PLAYER: ‘DON'T E AS AN SULT. THERE'S NOTHG WRONG WH BEG GAY’

The England cricket pta Joe Root has been wily hailed for his rponse to alleged homophobic abe after tellg an opponent that “there is nothg wrong wh beg gay” was out the middle durg the third and fal Tt Sat Lucia on Monday when he had a heated altertn wh the Wt Indi fast bowler Shannon the stump microphon did not pick up Gabriel’s ial remarks, he was spoken to about his language by the umpir at the time. On Tuday night he was charged wh a breach of the Internatnal Cricket Council’s of nduct for g “language of a personal, sultg, obscene and/or offensive nature” UK sport mister, Mims Davi, said Root served huge praise for immediately llg out the remarks and said his actns should “serve as an example to anyone who se homophobic abe” to do the same. Her sentiment was shared by the former England hockey pta Kate Richardson-Walsh, who is gay.

“The more players, fans, clubs and anisatns that stand up for equaly sport, the sooner we kick discrimatn out and make sport everyone’s game, ” she Davi, the former England wicketkeeper who me out as gay 2011, appld Root’s stance on Twter. However, his rponse to the bowler’s sledgg was immediate – wh Root tellg the Wt Indian bowler twice “Don’t e as an sult” before addg: “There’s nothg wrong wh beg gay. “Root, as England pta, stood up the middle of a Tt match to what he thought was homophobic abe and said ‘I’m not havg that’.

There’s no room for homophobia on or off the cricket pch, which is why I appld what Joe Root did.

CHRIS GAYLE

Homosexualy is illegal Sat Lucia, and those nvicted n face a prison sentence of between five and 10 years.