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Cricketer Moen Ali called ‘Osama’, recalls the horrific incident of Ashes 2015

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Moen Ali, who plays International Cricket and represents England has hit out at the Australian players saying that they have a very rude approach towards the game. Remembering the incident he said that during the 2015 Ashes, an Australian player taking racial discrimination to the next level, allegedly called him ‘Osama’.

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“It was a great first Ashes Test in terms of my personal performance, however there was one incident which had distracted me,” Moeen Ali said as reported by Dailymail.

“An Australian player had turned to me on the field and said, “Take that, Osama.” I have never been so angry on a cricket field. I told a couple of the guys what the player had said to me and I think Trevor Bayliss must have raised it with Darren Lehmann, the Australians’ coach. Lehmann asked the player, “Did you call Moeen Osama?” He denied it, saying, “No, I said, “Take that, you part-timer”.

“I must say I was amused when I heard that for there is a world of difference between the words “Osama” and “part-timer”. Although I couldn’t have mistaken “part-timer” for “Osama”, obviously I had to take the player’s word for it, though for the rest of the match I was angry,” added the England all-rounder.

“But our eventual triumph and the Cardiff crowd’s reaction to me comforted me that the Australian player represented nobody.”

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Moen Ali, signed for Warwickshire aged just 15, hitting a half-century for the county’s Second XI a few days before his 16th birthday.

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