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Usman Khawaja Difficulties ICC, Clears up Choice For Wear Dark Armband

Australian opening hitter Usman Khawaja will challenge his Worldwide Cricket Committee’s (ICC) charge for wearing a clear armband during the main Test match against Pakistan, as per ESPNcricinfo. Before the beginning of the second Test in Melbourne, Khawaja said that he wore the dark armband for “individual deprivation”. The 37-year-old brought up that in the past numerous cricketers have done “a wide range of things” yet they were never been scrutinized.

“They asked me on day two [in Perth] everything that it was for and said to them it was for an individual loss. I never at any point expressed it was for whatever else. The shoes were an alternate matter, I’m glad to say that. The armband looks bad to me. I followed every one of the guidelines, past points of reference, folks that put stickers on their bats, names on their shoes, done a wide range of things in the past without ICC endorsement and never been condemned,” Khawaja was cited by ESPNcricinfo as saying.

The Aussie player added that he regards the summit cricket board and every one of the guidelines and guidelines. The left-given player added that ICC has not been reliable previously.

“I regard the ICC and the standards and guidelines they have. I will ask them and challenging whether they make it fair and evenhanded for everybody and whether they have consistency by they way they direct. That consistency hasn’t been finished at this point. I was exceptionally transparent with that. I’ll manage that with the ICC,” he added.

In the main Test match in Perth, Khawaja wore the armband having at first wanted to take the field with composing on his shoes which he had worn in preparing expressing “all lives are equivalent” and “opportunity is a common freedom” to bring issues to light of the philanthropic emergency in Gaza.

However dark armbands are routinely worn by players to grieve the passings of previous players, relatives or other huge people, they need authorization from the public board and the ICC before they are worn.

“Usman Khawaja has been charged for penetrating Proviso F of the Attire and Gear Guidelines,” an ICC representative told ESPNcricinfo.

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