Banned symbol re-emerges after bat broken

Australian opener Usman Khawaja was forced to region a dove sticker from his bat aft requesting a replacement connected time 3 of the bid opener against New Zealand successful Wellington.

On Saturday morning, the 37-year-old cracked his bat during Australia’s 2nd innings astatine the Basin Reserve, with substitute fielder Matthew Renshaw moving connected a replacement.

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However, Khawaja needed to peel disconnected a quality rights sticker of a dove holding an olive subdivision from the caller bat - connected the tract - earlier resuming his innings.

During the caller location summer, the ICC rejected Khawaja’s petition to deterioration the dove holding an olive branch, which raises consciousness for the humanitarian situation successful Gaza, during planetary matches due to the fact that the organisation deemed it a “political protest”.

The Queenslander has continued utilizing the sticker portion grooming successful the nets.

“The awesome of the dove is an universally recognised awesome of peace,” Cricket Australia main enforcement Nick Hockley explained successful December.

“That being said, the ICC person got their rules and deliberation they explained their rationale truly intelligibly and we respect that.

“What we’ve been truly wide astir is that we enactment Uzzie and each our players truly to stock what the what they judge implicit their ain channels.”

Ahead of this summer’s Boxing Day Test against Pakistan, Khawaja called retired the ICC for “double standards”, posting images of teammate Marnus Labuschagne with book verses connected his bat.

A fewer weeks earlier, the left-hander was prevented from wearing shoes donning the connection “all lives are equal” and “freedom is simply a quality right” during the Perth Test against Pakistan. He was besides censured by the ICC for wearing a achromatic armband during the match.

“I don’t cognize the ins and outs of the application, but I deliberation it is beauteous vanilla, a dove,” Australian skipper Pat Cummins said earlier this summer.

“We truly enactment Uzzy, I deliberation he’s lasting up for what helium believes and I deliberation he’s doing it truly respectfully. All lives are adjacent and I don’t deliberation that’s precise offensive, and I’d accidental the aforesaid astir the dove.

“That’s Uzzy. He tin clasp his caput precocious the mode he’s gone astir it, but there’s rules successful place, truthful I judge the ICC person said they’re not going to o.k. that. They marque up the rules and you’ve got to judge it.”

Later successful the greeting league astatine the Basin Reserve, Khawaja suffered a encephalon slice portion facing part-time spinner Glenn Phillips, suckered into charging down the transportation and stumped by Black Caps wicketkeeper Tom Blundell for 28.

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