ECB should not punish Ollie Robinson too severely if he has modified his methods lately: Michael Holding

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) shouldn’t “come down too hard” on Ollie Robinson for previous racist and sexist feedback if he has since modified his behaviour, former West Indies bowler Michael Holding stated. Michael Holding feels Ollie Robinson deserves second probability. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSOllie Robinson deserves second probability if he modified his methods lately: Michael HoldingThe ECB suspended Robinson from all worldwide cricket final weekend Robinson apologised “unreservedly” for these tweets, which went viral on social mediaFormer West Indies pacer Michael Holding believes that Ollie Robinson shouldn’t be severely punished for his historic racist and sexist tweets if an investigation proves he has modified his behaviour since then.Ollie Robinson was suspended proper after the tip of his Test debut – the primary Test of a 2-match collection between England and New Zealand pending the outcomes of a disciplinary investigation into his posts. Robinson tendered an unconditional public apology through the Test match after his tweets from 2012-13 resurfaced on social media.Robinson apologised “unreservedly” for these tweets, which went viral on social media final week when he made his check debut towards New Zealand at Lord’s.”(It was) eight, nine years ago. Can the ECB find out please, if beyond that time, Robinson has kept on behaving like that, saying things like that, tweeting things like that?” Holding informed Sky Sports on Tuesday.”If he has done something like that nine years ago, and since then he has learnt and done nothing like that and he has changed his ways in recent years, then I don’t think you should come down too hard on him.”Holding stated the ECB had taken the fitting plan of action by suspending the 27-year-old to analyze the matter.”You don’t allow him to continue playing while an investigation is going on at the same time, because if you find out things that are horrible coming out in that investigation,” he stated. “But do it quickly, let’s get it over with quickly.”The ECB has stated it could take “relevant and appropriate action” after questions have been raised publicly about historic tweets from a number of different gamers.The board can be investigating a second England participant for historic “offensive” social media posts, cricket web site Wisden has reported.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.