Woke Cricketers

[Nefertiti2]

Mark Ramprakash

https://twitter.com/MarkRamprakash/status/1094024127055347717

Pro Cobryn, Pro Momentum. Anti Brexit.

stands up to Michael Vaughan on Shamina Begum

https://twitter.com/MarkRamprakash/status/1097144103425458177

[diggedy derek]

This has the potential to be the best thread ever.

I can't think of any right now, though of course Zafar Ansari would have fitted in here.

https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/...ampton-school/

[ad hoc]

Moeen Ali was famously banned from wearing Free Palestine and Save Gaza wristbands

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...n_5629250.html

[ad hoc]

And does CLR James count? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._R._James

[Kevin S]

Mithali Raj dealing with the interviewer who asked her who was her favourite male cricketer.

[diggedy derek]

Mithali Raj reading poetry before going into bat gets some wild proto-woke bonus points. Plus she is one of the best floppy hat wearers in cricket. But I digress.

[Lucy Waterman]

Joe Root in his comments to Shannon Gabriel recently, of course. I've never been a big fan but that was exceptionally fucking cool for a sportsman.

[Jimski]

Virat Kohli: "“Everyone should be a feminist.”"

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/the-sup...11-p50lid.html

[E10 Rifle]

I wouldn't cite Viv Richards as competely 'woke' but he's not bad on general post-colonial relations between Britain and the Caribbean. As are a lot of his generation of West Indies players, unsurprisingly. Sarah Taylor's mental health advocacy also worth a shout, perhaps, even if it is rooted in her own troubles.

[Etienne]

Clive Lloyd particularly. Though not sure whether it was just his being the captain that meant I heard his view more.

[Duncan Gardner]

William Porterfield and Uptown Boyd Rankin are certainly Doagh and Coagh if not Woke

[jwdd27]

Derek Pringle. He wore an earring, for Christ's sake

[The_Purple_Cow]

Tom Cartwright was of course an outspoken Socialist.

[The_Purple_Cow]

BTW, I'm not having Derek Pringle, he got off with a Dutch girl I had been pursuing for months when England lost to Oranje back in the 80's.

(I've told the story of the Dutch shenanigans around that game many times, so I won't go over it again.)

[Nefertiti2]

Mark still going

[URL]https://twitter.com/markramprakash/status/1111209646457569281?s=21[/URL]