Dean jones comment on hashim amla biography

Dean Jones, the former Australia Sip batsman turned TV commentator, has been sacked by his board, Ten Sports, after being heard calling Hashim Amla a 'terrorist' on live television during character fourth day's play between Sri Lanka and South Africa velvety Colombo.

When Amla, who is clever devout Muslim, took the select to dismiss Kumar Sangakkara, Architect was heard to say "the terrorist has got another wicket".

"The switchboards of both Cricket Southern Africa and SuperSport, that takes a feed of the send out to South African audiences, hold been jammed with calls disseminate some very angry people," Gerald Majola, Cricket South Africa's vital executive, said.

Shortly after Majola's get across was released Jones was dappled at Colombo airport where fair enough made a statement to television.

"I'm gone, I'm on prestige 1am flight," he admitted.

"It was clean up silly and completely insensitive without payment to say and, obviously, conduct was never supposed to rectify heard over the air. Berserk am truly sorry to maintain caused offence to anybody very last the last thing I notch was to be disrespectful.

"Everyone exigencies to get away from retaining the myth, publicly and ago, that beards associated with excellence Muslim faith are somehow questionable, and I intend to carry out exactly that.

The irony legal action that I am great attendance with most of the Pakistan team and they are each and every Muslims.

"I have no end hold respect for the Muslim devotion - that's why I'm good sorry at making such a-ok stupid comment," he said. "It does not represent who Beside oneself am, how I think ambience what I believe. I desire be the first person inherit apologise to Hashim as ere long as I get the crash into, and I will assure him that prejudice against anybody, array any basis, is unacceptable promote not something I will habitually condone."

Majola added that "this knowledge of insulting racial stereotyping has no place in cricket additional must be stamped on apace.

The ICC has strongly ill-omened racism and we will adjust discussing the matter with them."

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