Follow UsSouth Africa fast bowler, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, who played five Tests, 61 ODIs and 23 T20Is between 2009 and 2014 has alleged that he was part of a team that practiced racial discrimination. The pacer was handed an eight-tear ban for his involvement in a match-fixing scandal in 2015. He has however maintained his innocence.
Tsotsobe’s revelations in his submission to the office of the Cricket South Africa (CSA) Social Justice and Nation building (SJN) transformation ombudsman.
"As a pre-cursor to the whole match-fixing saga, it is important to give context to the life of a player of color in a white-dominated sport," Tostsobe said.
“Being a person of colour in cricket has never been an easy road to navigate. I was exposed to resistance, discrimination, and victimisation of inconceivable proportions,” he added.
Tsotsobe also revealed there was a time when his mother was thrown out of the presidential suite in a stadium where the family of white cricketers were present. He was also made to carry bags of the other cricketers, but he had initially brushed that off thinking that it was a tradition with new cricketers coming into the fold. But he realised later, that it was due to the colour of his skin.
