Gay cricketers won’t e out until 'stigma' is tackled, boss warned

Contents:

• E GAY
• E GAY 1919EGAY
• E GAY SIGNS FIRST PROFSNAL CONTRACT
• E GAY BE LATT PLAYER TO M TO NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
• GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED
• HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
• COUNTY CHAMPNSHIP: E GAY HS MAIN NORTHANTS HUNDRED AGAST KENT
• E GAY
• E GAY
• FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY MUNICH
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Most viewed playersBornApril 14, 2000, BedfordBattg StyleLeft hand BatBowlg StyleRight arm MediumE Gay Career StatsBattg & FieldgFormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtStFC34601172914529. 00-000Debut/Last Match of E GayRecent Match of E GayNews and Featur about E GayPhotos of E Gay© 2023 ESPN Sports Media Ltd.

First-class appearanc30Shirt Number: 19Battg Style: Left-hand BatBowlg Style: Right- Arm MediumTwo very different ngs agast the aggrsive and potent bowlg attack of the eventual County Champnship wners reaffirmed the exceptnal talent of E Gay was the send, the late-season draw agast Surrey at Wantage Road, that ught the eye of the wir cricket dience. A performance that bed the textbook technique and the touch of flamboyance that mak Gay so pleasant and excg to watch. On paper, a sre of 51 a game that end an ngs feat appears to rry ltle value, but Gay had to display extraordary strength and fight to fend off a set of fired-up Surrey bowlers at The Oval May.

Stck on almost intil posns on his wrist on several ocsns, the tall left-hanr battled superbly through the tought of ndns and, dog so, showed he posss both the mentaly and the talent to have an credibly succsful ns ntributed to a County Champnship total of 825, wh a century also sred the dramatic victory over Kent at Canterbury, as the ever-prent Gay stepped up om prodigy to key figure the Northamptonshire si and was reward wh a two-year ntract 23-year-old, however, will have to wa until the send month of the 2023 season to build on the succs of the prev mpaign wh an jury staed durg pre-season lg him out of the ial block of f, he will also be lookg to build on the promise shown durg his outgs the whe-ball si. Gay posss the quali to be fluential all three formats.

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”Gay was part of the Amy’s first-ever overseas trip to South Ai back Febary and has also sred plenty of ns for Northampton Sats the Northamptonshire League’s Premier Divisn. ”Gay’s prolific season has clud a few massive dividual performanc cludg 186 not out for the Send XI and double hundred the NCL Premier Divisn.

”“I’m lighted to have e through the ranks at Northants to earn a ntract, ” Gay said. E Gay be latt player to m to Northamptonshire.

E Gay is the latt player to pledge their immediate future to Northamptonshire. Gay's al was due to expire at the end of the mpaign but the announcement ensur he will rema among a burgeong Northants squad.

E GAY SIGNS FIRST PROFSNAL CONTRACT

A product of the club's talent pathway, Gay has stck 319 ns the LV= Insurance County Champnship durg 2022.

E GAY BE LATT PLAYER TO M TO NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

"I'm very pleased to have signed my new ntract, " Gay said.

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.

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

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.

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

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

“I certaly wasn’t livg a gay life, wasn’t part of the scene, didn’t have a partner.

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.

COUNTY CHAMPNSHIP: E GAY HS MAIN NORTHANTS HUNDRED AGAST KENT

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.

”Homophobic attus sport still very much exist, said Malee Chapman, The Spoff’s edor and producer of the documentary seri. E Gay's prev hight first-class sre was 77 not out agast Glaman 2020LV= County Champnship Group Three, Spfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury (day one)Northamptonshire 362-5: Gay 101, Procter 81, Vasncelos 66Kent: Yet to batKent 1 pt, Northamptonshire 4 ptsMatch srerdNorthants opener E Gay sred his main first-class century as they piled up 362-5 on day one agast left-hanr h 101, cludg a six and 15 fours, and shared stands of 135 and 100 wh Rirdo Vasncelos (66) and Le was ught behd off Jack Leang, but Procter weighed wh 81 before he was lbw to Matt Stevens then removed Rob Keogh and Adam Rossgton quick succsn to avoid a rare wicketls day. Northants slumped om 314-2 to 318-5 as Kent - one of only two sis yet to register a County Champnship w this season - took the send new Taylor and Saif Zaib prevented any further damage as Northants, who began the game third Group Three, jt two pots behd Yorkshire, llected four battg morng was domated by their openg pair as Gay reached 50 off 66 balls, four fewer than partner Vasncelos, havg ma 5, 7 and 0 his three prev Champnship ngs this lofted Leang for six as he prsed on towards his century, but the spner gaed a measure of revenge when he edged to the keeper soon after reachg three figur om 157 balls faced.

Personal InformatnFull NameE N GayBornApril 14, 2000 BedfordAge23 Years, 3 Months, 14 DaysNatnal SiEnglandBattg StyleLeft HandBowlgRight-arm mediumSportCricketRankg TtODIT20Battg---Bowlg---Man of the MatchTtODIT20World CupCL-----Career InformatnTeams PlayedNorthamptonshire, ItalyCareer SpanE N Gay Overall StatsBattg & Fieldg PerformanceMIN/ORHS100s50s4s6sAVGS/RCTSTDucksR/OBowlg PerformanceIOMRWBt3s5sAVGE/RS/RMtc. And this XI all have one thg mon – they are gay.

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Set up 1996 wh the aim of providg an “opportuny for people to watch and play cricket irrpective of genr or sexual orientatn, ” a world where beg gay wasn’t always accepted, Grac have bee a haven for people to e to terms wh their sexualy while also allowg them to play cricket.

They’ve often e om societi where is illegal to be gay and the opportuny to meet like-md dividuals is somethg that Sam Nimaiyar, who was born India, has valued immensely.

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But for Chris Sherwood – the club’s prs and publicy officer – beg able to play cricket and not stand out for beg gay is one of Grac’ unique appeal. “It’s nice not to be ‘the gay one, ’” Sherwood said. “I always feel like if I was a straight team, ’s like ‘oh Chris, he’s the gay one’ and then I have to e out.

“This is the reason ’s difficult for people to e out bee there’s all this banter about gay beg lser somehow and to sudnly go ‘that’s me, I’m gay, ’ ’s que a difficult thg to do. Modi moved om India to the UK 2004 and although he had known he was gay for the prev 18 months, he’d never had any gay relatnships. Upon movg to London, a batn of his membership at Grac, his new gay iends and his ex-boyiend – whom he still creds for much of the posive aspects of his life – Modi cid to e out to the most important person his life – his dad.

In tradnal Indian culture, where arranged marriag are often the norm, to have an openly gay relative would harm a fay’s abily to attract potentially prospero spo.

FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY

Although is timated that the law change affected 104 ln gay Indians, is still not monplace to be openly gay Indian society.

Whether is bee of tradnal attus or homophobic beliefs that still permeate through the untry as a rult of relig iologi, the numbers of openly gay people India is disproportnate to the populatn of India. It’s impossible to ppot a sgular actn that will fively change the perspective of the Indian populatn of the LGBT muny, but speakg to Modi and Nimaiyar, is clear that they believe that havg famo Indian ins – whether they are sports stars or celebri other walks of life – voice their support for the LGBT muny, is somethg that uld signifintly help gay people.

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However, she advised him not to e out to his brother and father bee “they would rather you be a rapist or murrer than gay.

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And isn’t jt the ethnic ntgent of the club who have had to al wh homophobic abe durg their liv. There is nothg wrong wh beg gay. ” Not only was Root standg up on behalf of all gay cricket players, but subsequently srg a century after makg the ment, he did what the members at Grac’ have learnt to do – let the cricket do the talkg.

(Ser qutn) Why don’t we have gay cricketers g out? We have so many lbians cricketers but beg a gay cricketer is still owned upon by the men’s team. (Getty File Photo)Former New Zealand fast bowler Heath Davis has bee the untry's first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly e out as gay.

He told The Spoff that was durg his first tour to England 1994 when he started to really disver himself, although he had told his mother at an early age he was gay. I had systems and people place where I uld talk about the thgs but I didn't feel fortable, " Mr Davis revealed that he entered his first gay relatnship when he was 27 years old while playg for Wellgton, but the pair was reluctant to appear public.