Australian batting great Ricky Ponting highlighted Aaron Finch’s recent stand on not going on knee to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
“We should certainly be talking about it,” said the veteran Australian batman, Ricky Ponting.
England and West Indies players took the symbolic stand position on the field before the start of each and every match in their three-match Test series which happened in July, but the same thing didn’t happened during Australia’s tour of England.
Finch had said his team decided against going down on knee after discussing the matter with England captain Eoin Morgan only because “education around it is more important than the protest”.
Ponting said, “I think what Finch was trying to say (is) that people need more education on the issue before taking a proper stance on it or putting across a protest.”
“Holding has been a vocal advocate of the movement that gained momentum with the killing of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis after being pinned to the ground by a white police officer for allegedly using a counterfeit bill.”
We should certainly be talking about it.
“Asked about Australia’s stance on the BLM movement during their tour of England, head coach Justin Langer acknowledged it could have been discussed more upon the squad’s arrival in the UK as the first sports team from Australia to travel overseas since the COVID-19 pandemic broke,” Ponting added.
