I'm training at Cricket Central tomorrow morning before the Blues play in the Shield match.
Happy to speak with any and all media about the events of this week at 9.30 am.
I've taken some time to try and better understand the long list and full extent of Uzzyās allegations so I can respond properly.
Afterwards please stay and support the Blues!
Iāll ask CA to send out details
Pakistani born former Australian Test cricketer, Usman Khawaja, claims Cricket Australia is āracistā for not making him the Test captain.
Usman Khawaja is selling the same tired story: Australian cricket is racist, Brisbane is stuck in the 1980s, and he was robbed of the Test captaincy because heās a Pakistani born Muslim.
If the place was actually the racist hellscape heās describing, a Pakistani born Muslim would never have got within cooee of the Australian Test team.
Yet he played 70 plus Tests, opened the batting for years, and built a long international career. Funny how that works.
He didnāt make Australian captain because HE WASNāT GOOD ENOUGH.
Plain and simple.
Tim Paine got the nod because of leadership and merit, not a skin colour conspiracy.
Thatās it. Not a conspiracy. Not a ābrown captainā ban.
Merit.
Now heās airing eight year old grievances while flogging a book, complaining about paper forms at Queensland Transport, no Turkish restaurants within 10km, and āclassic Queensland humour.ā
Whining about the state that gave him a professional career, then pointing at Pauline Hanson like it proves systemic racism.
Instead of showing an ounce of gratitude for the massive platform and career Australia gave him, he waits eight years to drop this opportunistic, divisive garbage just to drive book sales.
Now heās crying because he couldnāt find a Turkish restaurant in Brisbane in 2012 and attacking Queensland culture?
Whiny, miserable, and utterly disrespectful to the country and team that backed him for over a decade.
Absolute dropkick behaviour.
He's a disgrace..
Khawaja will go back to his playing "Racist" card when cornered.
He's just thrown his Australian team mates & the whole Australian Cricket Team & Board under the BUS!
What for?
Just plain Nasty or for Money from book sales.
Starc said he won't be reading it.āļø
This guy is an absolute joke
Heās just destroyed what little credibility he has left
Canāt answer the questions, because heād rather you ābuy his bookā
Grifter
Canāt back up claims of racism, because itās just how āhe feltā
Laughable
Donāt be @Uz_Khawaja:
⢠Makes Australian team
⢠Preaches his Muslim faith, integrity, honesty
⢠Constantly whinges
⢠2018, knows that others in the team cheated āsandpapergateā
⢠Stays quiet for 8 years, afraid of not being selected
⢠Makes claims to sell new book
Dragging The Pace Trio Just Because They are The Most Relevent Players in The Current Squad,Makes it More Obvious That Khawaja is Doing All This Just For His Book to be big breaking in media
@HBJ3221@bharateih@arandomguyposts@GloryofSteveSm1 Ca did investigation at that time starc cummo hoof was not guilty in 2018 and now then why the fuck this slutty showed up and put allegations js for making some good bucks.
Usman Khawaja is a fucking twat. His only āSabrā was waiting for his career to be over so he could cash his pension cheque by writing a tell-all book.
If he really had the balls, he should have spoken up when it mattered. Never liked the self-righteous prick when he was playing, now heās only proving me right.
Itās funny how people suddenly grow a spine when they find a fat publishing deal. The entire CA setup has been a joke ever since Sandpapergate.
@couriermail He didn't refuse to answer questions because he wanted to spare anyone, he did it to get people to buy his book - every answer was basically 'you'll have to read what I wrote'.
Throwing his teammates under the bus for book sales - he's nothing but a grub.
@TUnlimitedd Why would the trio or quartet lie brother? Usman cant appear on interviews cant say that they are lying the heck he is on this guy making some big money