{"id":538,"date":"2020-06-06T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=13126"},"modified":"2020-06-06T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T11:58:11","slug":"sports-has-the-power-to-unite-the-world-sachin-tendulkar-comments-on-iccs-video-on-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/sports-has-the-power-to-unite-the-world-sachin-tendulkar-comments-on-iccs-video-on-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports has the power to unite the world: Sachin Tendulkar comments on ICC\u2019s video on diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC)\u2009recently shared a video on social media regarding diversity in cricket. The ICC captioned the video saying \u201ccricket is nothing without diversity\u201d on the backdrop of the topic of racism griping the world after the death of George Floyd in the USA. In the 90-second video clip, Barbados-born Joffra Arche is successfully bowling the Super Over against New Zealand for England and winning the 2019 Cricket World Cup for his country .<\/p>\n<p>The video has prompted a response from legendary batsman and former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. who shared South Africa president Nelson Mandela\u2019s quote on sport\u2019s power to unite the world .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNelson Mandela once said, \u201cSport has the power to change the world. It has the power to unite the world in a way that little else does.\u201d Wise words.\u201d captioned Tendulkar in the response.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nelson Mandela once said,<br \/>\u201cSport has the power to change the world. It has the power to unite the world in a way that little else does.\u201d<br \/>Wise words. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@icc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaureusSport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LaureusSport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qHuphZ3gc3\">pic.twitter.com\/qHuphZ3gc3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sachin_rt\/status\/1269147296089792513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The England team that won the ODI World Cup had an Irishman captain (Eoin Morgan) at the helm. The best performer was a New Zealand born all-rounder (Ben Stokes), spinners were of Pakistani origin (Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid) and the innings got a headstart from an opener of South African heritage (Jason Roy).In fact, Morgan after World Cup triumph spoke about how the team found unity in diversity which became the secret of its success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt actually epitomises our team. Quite diverse backgrounds and cultures and guys grow up in different countries and to actually find humour in the situation we were in at times was pretty cool,\u201d Morgan had said back then, referring to the pulsating Super Over bowled by Archer.<\/p>\n<p>World\u2019s leading cricketers including West Indians Chris Gayle and two-time World T20 winning skipper Darren Sammy have spoken about racism in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy had even urged the ICC to come out in support of the black cricketers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, if the cricket world not standing against the injustice against people of color after seeing that last video of that foot down the next of my brother you are also part of the problem,\u201d Sammy had said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICC captioned the video saying \u201ccricket is nothing without diversity\u201d as the topic of racism has griped the world after the death of George Floyd in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":23677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}