Qasim Sheikh: Scotland head coach phonecall over racism report ‘meant a lot’

On Monday, previous Scotland internationalists Sheikh and Majid Haq spoke out about their individual activities of racism in Scottish cricket following Prepare4Sport’s unbiased review into the matter in the activity issued a damning verdict.

Previous Scotland captain George Salmond arrived at out to the duo on social media immediately after Monday’s revelations, but they ended up annoyed that far more of the recent coaching and enjoying team had not been in touch by Tuesday evening.

On the other hand, Sheikh and Scotland’s primary wicket taker of all time Haq were being at the match at The Grange in Edinburgh yesterday afternoon together with their lawyer Aamer Anwar – and it was disclosed that South African Burger experienced phoned the previous a handful of hours prior to the 2.30pm commence.

Speaking at the floor during the very first innings, Sheikh, 37, explained: “Shane Burger phoned me [on Wednesday morning].

“I’ve bought great relations with Shane. He’s been on the [Sheikhy’s Sports Journeys] podcast a couple of moments. I think he is a good, honourable man and he proved that to me by calling. He was declaring he hoped to welcome us to the floor and he hoped we take pleasure in the video game and that they boys put out a huge efficiency. That meant a good deal to me.

“Just the reality he took that time to make that cellphone connect with [meant a lot].”

After the match, which Scotland eventually lost by 68 operates, Sheikh, Haq and Anwar had been noticed obtaining a lengthy chat with Burger and Scotland captain Richie Berrington on the boundary edge.

Burger said: “For me to select up the cellular phone [to Qasim] was my decision as I realized they had been going to be below [at the game]. I just desired to thank them for coming to support us.

“I’ve not been privy to discussions that occurred in the previous. All I know is that we all want to get far better and improve.

“It’s not only Qasim, there are a lot of other victims who have fallen foul of what’s happened. We would all like to do this together – that is the only way we can get improved and recover from this.

“Given my qualifications growing up in South Africa I have dealt with a ton of this in the earlier and it is not a wonderful position to be – the essential for me is that we understand from it and that we place devices in position so that men and women can play the video game from all backgrounds and all walks of everyday living.”

Throughout the 1st innings, the New Zealand batters put on a masterclass.

It was led by opener Finn Allen, the 23-yr-old smashing 101 off just 56 balls to guide his facet to a quite overwhelming total of 225-5 from their 20 overs.

He strike eight fours and six sixes in his innings right before remaining stumped by wicketkeeper Matthew Cross off the bowling of Mark Watt when, in overall, New Zealand hit 29 boundaries.

Chris Sole was the bowler punished the most, ending with the bruising figures of 1-72 off four overs.

In reply, openers George Munsey and Calum MacLeod put on a 62-run partnership for the 1st wicket, but it was generally heading to be a large inquire to chase 226 for Scotland.

In the stop they finished on 157-8 with Ish Sodhi taking 4-28 for New Zealand.