Historic tweets put McCullum in spotlight
New Zealand cricketing great Brendon McCullum has found himself caught up in the historic tweets saga that is plaguing England cricket.
England quick Ollie Robinson has been suspended indefinitely after historic tweets – from when he was a teenager in 2012-14 – which included sexist and racist messages, resurfaced on day one of his test debut at
Lord’s last week.
The England Cricket
Board has since begun an investigation into other historic tweets, including some from senior players Eoin Morgan and Jos Buttler, which allegedly mock Indians’ use of the English language, dating back to 2017.
According to Crictracker.com, McCullum allegedly replied to a 2018 tweet from Morgan, celebrating the batting of Buttler, that appeared to make fun of Indian fans using the English language.
‘‘Sir, you’re my favorite batsman,’’ Morgan wrote to Buttler, according to screenshots posted on the Crictracker report.
It also showed a tweet that allegedly came from McCullum’s account that said: ‘‘josbuttler Sir, you play very good Opening batting.’’
McCullum, who has recently been announced as the face of new nationwide sports radio network SENZ, which will begin broadcasting later this year, is the coach of IPL franchise the Kolkata Knight Riders, and Morgan one of its star players.
Kolkata Knight Riders chief executive
Venky Mysore told the Cricbuzz website they did not yet know enough about the situation to comment.
‘‘Let’s wait for the process to be completed
to get all the facts before we jump to any conclusions.
‘‘Just to reiterate, the Knight Riders organisation has ‘zero tolerance’ for any
sort of discrimination,’’ Mysore said.
Stuff has sought comment from McCullum through a SENZ spokeswoman in the past two days, but has