James Anderson deletes his ‘lesbian’ tweet that mocked Stuart Broad

A couple of days after English pacer Ollie Robinson was reprimanded by England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for his outdated “racist and sexist” tweets, legendary English cricketer James Anderson is within the dock over one in all his outdated tweets through which he had known as fellow seamer Stuart Broad a ’15-year-old lesbian’.
A tweet put out by veteran quick bowler James Anderson mocking his Test match teammate Stuart Broad on February 20, 2010, has now come beneath ECB’s scanner. In his tweet, James Anderson had stated that Stuart Broad “looked like a 15 yr old lesbian!” in his new haircut.
“I saw Broady’s new haircut for the first time today. Not sure about it. Thought he looked like a 15 yr old lesbian!,” the tweet from February 2010 learn.
James Anderson’s now deleted tweet/ Image Source: Dailymail
The quick bowler appears to have deleted the tweet within the wake of the current fallout over Robinson’s messages. It is just not clear when the tweet was taken down.
James Anderson has reacted to the newest controversy saying, “For me, it’s 10-11 years ago, I’ve certainly changed as a person. I think that’s the difficulty, things do change, you do make mistakes. It’s something that we’re definitely going to have to look at.”
“If there are any tweets from years ago, we do have to look at that and again learn from this and be better in the future, try and make sure we know it’s unacceptable to use these sorts of phrases and language.”
Anderson, who’s the best wicket taker for England in checks, stated gamers had been additionally attending workshops.
The quick bowler stated, “It’s a difficult time. As players, we’re trying to learn from this, really. We’ve realised that it’s important to try and get educated around these issues, which we’re continuing to do with the ECB and the PCA (Professional Cricketers’ Association).”
English Cricket rocked by controversy over gamers’ historic tweets
Meanwhile, the ECB has pledged to take “relevant and appropriate action” as extra historic tweets put out gamers which might be allegedly offensive in nature proceed to emerge. Last week, outdated tweets put out by English debutant Ollie Anderson surfaced, creating a large furore on the web.
Robinson is at the moment dealing with an ECB investigation into “racist and sexist tweets” he posted in 2012 and 2013, drawing consideration away from a robust worldwide debut in opposition to New Zealand.
Tweets put out by Ollie Robinson
Not simply Robinson, England stars Jos Buttler and Eoin Morgan have additionally discovered themselves in comparable controversies for sure outdated tweets.
The two English gamers are additionally allegedly beneath investigation from the ECB, for mocking the Indians and their elocution of English. After batsman Alex Hales struck a ton, Buttler tweeted a congratulatory message for Hales and wrote, “much beauty batting you are on fire, sir.”
Old tweets of Jos Butler/ Image Source: Dailymail
On the opposite hand, England ODI captain Eoin Morgan had mocked Indians in his tweet saying Buttler is his favorite batsman.
Image Source: News18
All three gamers are beneath ECB’s investigation over their earlier ‘racist’ tweets.