Former Black Cap fast Heath Davis comes out as homosexual

Former Test tempo bowler Heath Davis has develop into the primary male New Zealand worldwide cricketer to come back out as homosexual, nonetheless a rarity within the skilled sport.

Davis, now 50 and dwelling in Australia, performed 5 exams and 11 one-day internationals from 1994 to 1997 in addition to having fun with a prolonged home profession as a fast however erratic quick bowler.

“I felt there was this part of my life that I was hiding,” he stated in an interview with on-line journal The Spinoff.

“There was a lot of that, just keeping your personal life separate. It was lonely … I was repressing it, I wasn’t living a gay life.”

Davis stated life improved after a transfer from his native Wellington to play home cricket within the extra cosmopolitan metropolis of Auckland in 1997.

“I felt there was this part of my life I needed to express, I was sick of hiding it,” he added.

“Everyone in Auckland knew I was gay, in the team, but it didn’t seem to be that big an issue … I just felt free.”

Former England wicketkeeper Steven Davies grew to become the primary male worldwide cricketer to publicly come out as homosexual in early 2011.