Wealthy white cricketers are"significantly overrepresented" at all levels of the game, according to research released on the eve of the World Cup semi-finals.
People from wealthier backgrounds and those who went to private schools were much more likely to make it into professional cricket than those who had less affluent upbringings, according to the study by Birmingham City University. Researchers found British players from South Asian backgrounds were much less likely to make it to the professional ranks, despite the sport being hugely popular among these communities.
Results suggested a lack of access to wealth created barriers to participation and development in the game, contributing to an ethnicity bias on a national scale. The research found that 56% of under-16 to under-19 cricketers, and 45% of professional players were white-British and went to independent schools.It found 43% of those who have played cricket for England in the last year went to a private school, compared with 7% of the general population.
Dire reporting
Oh god ...groan!... here we go again. I blame the media why make this rubbish news?
Does anyone mention that white players are under represented in the West Indies, India or Pakistani teams?
And.....?
That’s it well done. Keep on stoking racial hatred with rubbis. Well done. X2. What about golf ? What about rugby? What about winter sports? Ice scaring umm chess ! Swimming ? Oh here’s 1 for you ? Why is the 100/200 metre sprint winders over represented by non whites ?
Ffs
Nothing better to report?
fuck off. where does this stop. does anyone say wealthy black people are over represented in nba or nfl? 🤔
phil36pip Racist story! But it’s ok, because it’s only racism against whites! You sacks of shit!
Sounds to me like a bigot instigated this study! What do you want?.... A poor black game Ffs!
Could not agree more. Doesn't help that a spectacle like the World Cup is on a satellite channel like Sky. Rather than the clueless BBC paying Lineker & Shearer almost £4million a year for doing their hobby. 1 year wages could have paid for it to be on BBC. Utterly useless
Give it a fucking rest. Sympathies are not won over. The game was created when the vast majority of people in this part of the world were white. Accept reality.
Psst there in the final so I think it’s working..
Can someone explain to these morons that white British still Remain around 80% of the population.. stop the fecking race baiting 😡😡😡
The strike red balls which is a subliminal racist message too.
Replies to this are spot on
Wealthy black 100m runners significantly over represented at Olympic games shock!
Guilty as charged 🍺🍺😎
I'm surprised that it's such a 'slow news day' considering the Labour turmoil, and 🏴 reaching the final of the ICC World Cup! Next they'll be doing a study on basketball players, inferring that tall players are 'significantly over represented in the game'.
Who the heck even watches or plays cricket. deadting
Yeah Indian and Pakistani clubs are full of them🤔🤔
That’s because they are professionals and earn their money in a white country.
Many of them have sold off their playing fields and cut back on sport
So what
....oh give it a rest....... yawn!!
And don’t forget the transgender community and wheelchair users. They too are under represented too and people identifying as a tree
As if in Britain the sport is ONLY significantly meant for white people?
Elite sport.
That’s because cricket is only avaliable if you can afford private school education regardless of colour, not played or on curriculum at state school where I am. No funding, desire or support to get it on there either. Teachers want to go home they don’t have capacity.
What in the India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, West Indies and South African sides? Whatevs 🙄
Especially in Pakistan.
So is it the colour, or is it the money? And why just cricket FFS?
Who studies this. What is their agenda?
Them bloody whites again. It’s amazing so many millions of Africans, Arabs and Asians move to “white” country’s.
Bloody unbelievable...is this a joke ?
WHAT !! Are saying that englandcricket & cricket in general are racist
That’s racist. Typical play the R card to get a headline
Do you ever stop with the continuous faux outrage, virtual signalling over identity politics?
This is just getting ridiculous now. Can the white population not be the majority in any situation, sporting or otherwise. Why are the West Indies/India/Pakistan not challenged in the same way ?
FFS .....give it a rest 😡😡😡😡😡😡
Oh go and do one
Wealthy white...perfect for DavidLammy lets hear your comments.
Bollocks. Windies, Pak, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka..... If people of colour want to play, they will, and good luck to em! If they don't, nobody can force them just to please PC quota setters.
Oh no now the snowflakes are crying about Sport
And the point of the study ?
Oh, do feck off Sky News with your woke wittering.
Sky so-called News, please foxtrot oscar with your identity politics. It's incessant, obsessive and tedious in the extreme.
Quelle surprise !!
So?
Jesus Christ when is all this bollocks going to end?... 🤦♂️
Fucking ridiculous 🚮
Silly story
What a load of disgusting nonsense you dish out . I am actually going to cancel my sky package. This is all insane .
Ffs can we stop reporting this utter drivel in the media. What next 'too many Kenyan long distance runners are black'? Cut it out man it's tedious
skystudysuggests
Todays Oxymoron. Sky News.
Just leave the nation to have a bit of fun whilst we smash the Aussies for god sake .🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏
MFL. When is this continual shite going to ever stop.
More PC BS trying to reinvent the wheel that has been synonymous with cricket & tennis since before the days of WG Grace & Fred Perry - Nothing is sacred & outta the wicked grasp of the modernistic PC Militia nowadays innit?.. 🙄😳
What a load of bollocks.
Sky news over represented by idiots......
What a totally sad bunch you’ve become ... go bore elsewhere
........fake news ......
Is David Lammy working for SLY now?
piersmorgan
Explain to me why it is not a requirement for teams from other countries to be more 'diverse'? Why is it only western countries that have to play to this multicultural tune? What if I said I think many African & Asian countries are too black or Asian & need to be more 'diverse'?
Zzzzzz zzzzzz
Here we fucking go. Is it not the point to put out your best players
How white are they? Ginger white? There can’t be to many of them about
Nothing to do with them being better players then?
zzzzzzzzzzzz
Your news channel gets more and more ludicrous by the day!
Bollocks!!!
😂😂
FFS
You know i was just thinking this the other day. I finished work and was having a few beers in the pub with a mate and we were both shocked at the amount of white players turning out in the Sri Lanka v India match.
So? Wealthy black players dominate NFL, NBA and MLB.
Blame white people again
Are wealthy black basket ball players overrepresented in the game?
Yawn.
I know, have you seen those white people in the west indies team!!
I think if you go to Pakistan, they’ll be lots of people from Pakistan playing for Pakistan:)
Meanwhile in Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. Players of colour completely outnumber white players. Oh the humanity.
Most of them want to play for their Country of origin, it's not rocket science, 🙄🙄
ffs your start David Lammy if again
What a racist tweet. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Whatever. More bullshit. Ever thought that the people playing, regardless of colour, are the best ones? No, didn't think so.
What is the matter with the PC fanatics; clearly underemployed and overpaid. Next they’ll be complaining that the English strip is too blue and too affluent looking.
Better tell the Indian cricket team🤔
What is this shite?
the india, pakistan and sri lankan teams are too black if that's the case
FFS!
'Dam white people and their'...... *shakes magic ball....... 'Interest in a sport they invented'
Are you being intentionally dense? Yes next time your tempted to say something stupid? Don't. A simple comparison with the teams of every other nation shows this to be the BS it truly is.
DunnLd15
Sky again Race Baiting every day IM WHITE IM ENGLISH AND IM FUKIN PROUD and my Black Boss yes Black Boss gets paid more than me who gives a fuk
If people can’t see the MSM agenda by now, well there is little hope! How long until Wimbledon is targeted in the same way?
So bloody what?
Ffs it’s nothing to do with someone’s colour it’s the fact schools have sold off the playing fields to make ends meet and sports just aren’t played, stop making it something it isn’t
Wealthy black basketball players significantly overrepresented in NBA, study finds. Stupid world really.
You have to blindly racist to think the way Sky News does.
That's my daily chuckle delt with thanks 👍🏻
A bit like arsholes at sky news
This shit is beyond tiresome now. Give it a fucking rest.
Has anyone asked black kids if they want to be wealthy cricket players?
Get a grip!!!
Hmm last time I looked West Indies, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan had zero white players 😳
Is this shit reporting ever going to stop?
It’s kinda who mostly play the game in fairness. Still, this sensationalised garbage doesn’t help.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
What a load of bollocks.
Oh for gods sake. Get lost with this rubbish. Which idiot thinks of this rubbish?
Omg - everything is racist.
Here we go. Race card dealt in a game in which there are no winners. And so 'back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other'! But is that not the purpose of your ideological reporting?! And (if that be true in cricket) - so WHAT! It works both ways.
Not enough women playing in the Men’s game either!
FFS.
What’s happened to Sky News?
There was a clear underrepresentation of white players at the Pakistan v India game a few weeks ago.
Nothing wrong with that!
Who invented the sport? We'll wait for your answer.
It’s cricket mate.
Like saying White cricketers are not represented enough in the Pakistan and West Indies teams.... give it a break.
So what?’!! Utterly absurd.
We can’t have anything now can we, sorry but we don’t want stabbings at lords if we can avoid it.
Ever loooked at nfl and nba in America? Or is that ignored because it’s the other way around?
'State comprehensives often lack the extra coaching and quality facilities available at private schools, says the study.' It took a Universiry Study to come to this conclusion....🙄
Nothing to do with ability then...... 😳
Is it about colour ,class or creed or simply ability?
Racist comment , I wonder in many sport do we just book it down to colour first , but it’s ok the other way round , is this reporter part of the panthers , or black tie mob , if we were in India and said oh there all Indian and come from more educated family’s ,
Wealthy white male tennis players Wealthy white F1 drivers Wealthy white MotoGP riders Wealthy white Olympic cyclists Wealthy white Tour de France cyclists Wealthy white downhill skiers Wealthy white badminton players Wealthy white Olympic rowers Wealthy white Olympic sailors
Oh shut up
That’s rich when the millionaires of the premier league are mostly black
Breaking news 2050: the straight white man is close to extinction
Equality of opportunity....NOT equality of outcome, is what we want. Social engineering leads to worse state of affairs
It’s an international sport 🤷🏻♂️ I noticed watching the World Cup that Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies, India etc were full of White players but England had no players that wasn’t white?
Nothing new there,I was at school in the 40s & 50s ,it was the same then,but the reverse is true in regard to football!
We just can’t escape being racially divided 😡
Wealthy black athletes significantly over represented in the Olympics study finds. Can you see how stupid that sounds? The cream always rises to the top...no matter what your skin colour.
In my country it’s cricket and rugby.
Cricket is over represented by white people in a country that is 83% white imagine my shock
I can’t wait for the results of the same study of basketball and netball
Surely there's to many brown men in the Indian & Pakistan teams... it's just so deplorable. We should ban all sports world wide, until all teams have equal colour pallets.
This isnt the case with the teams of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan.
It's almost like they invented it.
I've been watching the world cup. Not seen any white players for India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, west Indies. Are they all institutionally racist?
Wtf is it with this worldwide anti whiteness?
All about race and wealth. Are they good at the sport? I wonder why we have a envy driven mindset. Color and gender driven divisiveness. Are we in kindergarten under 5 years old and need to be told about such frivolous ideology.
You haven’t met the Indian league players then.
Well the ‘millions of kids’ playing on the streets of india must be shit then 🥴🙄
I’m guessing wealthy white polo players “significantly over represented in the game” as well? Bet you don’t do a study on that coz of the royals participation! Sky news- stop trying to stir up concerns that don’t need to exist!
Was it a 'study' by DavidLammy, by any chance? Because I'm sure he'd find evidence that the West Indies team was over represented by Whites too, given half a chance! 🤔
The study comes from people paid to make the study..... But like bacon being the best sandwich filling says pig farmers study.
You don’t say?
Are sky propped up by the joos asking for a friend ?
It’s okay to be white
Oh do f%ck off with this race baiting.
It took a study? Look at America. When sports were finally desegragated, teams got more diverse n color. Thr are still holdouts tho: equestrian teams & countrymusic. Lol lol. Dependn on country & $$$ needed 2 play it will EVENTUALLY diversify. MyDNAOnTheRightSideOfHistory
How is this an issue?
They did a study about this🤔
The Pakistan and India team is too brown
What a load of bollocks! ...Why can't people just allow players to play the game without bringing into question the players creed, colour or religion Press shit stirring again
More race baiting .You're on a roll today Sky .Climate hysteria & race baiting .Carry on
Loads of balance from Sky
Don’t show it on Sky sports then
100m sprints
Tennis ?
Boring..maybe do football stats in London
You can 'find' anything if you have an agenda.
India and Pakistan have NO whites so are they over represented?
Give it a rest
oh please stop
God I hate this race bate why dont we look at the real issue your trying to hide The government are screwing us all over no matter what colour you are
Ffs are white people allowed to exist anymore
Despite being only 13% something something... 'Overrepresented' 'Report'
All this white shaming by the MSN and liberal fuckwits . My message to you is drop dead . I’m proud of my race heritage and country’s history . I’ve seen mothers with there breasts cut of in Africa so they can’t feed children but keep on white shaming.
Here we go again 🙄🙄🙄
It’s where the game’s played. You need a massive oval of grass that’s tended regularly & they don’t have that where poor people live. Is it a conspiracy to make sure poor people just keep working whilst rich people play games and sip Pimms?
Yawn yawn yawn.....here we go again!!! Tread on the white man, there are dozens and dozens of cricket clubs about.....why don’t they go and join in at one! Never seen 1 at mine.....!
Shock, what about Croquet? Smells like white privilege too. 🤣
Black British Olympic sprinters have been massively overrepresented in the past, Iv found. But who cares!
Asian cricketers are overrepresented.
Can’t wait to log onto Twitter tomorrow and see what the latest sport/craze/job the ‘whites’ are overrepresented in 🙄
Pathetic article. WE ALL KNOW THAT...
so nothing to do with competence then... so poor white children who also enjoy cricket 'need not apply' either Really !!! which bonehead wrote this article....
Where do I sign up for the latest 'victim' club?
Oh gawd. Just stop.
White white white white white. Make sure that you mention WHITE all the time, and that you disparage WHITE, and that you sneer and tut at WHITE, and express disgust and outrage that too many people are WHITE. Make every article about how awful and vile and wrong it is to be WHITE
Oh look, here's a MSM article pushing some anti-white hatred. Imagine my shock! The English people are white so it stands to reason that the vast majority of the ENGLAND cricket team would be white. But hey, don't let obvious facts get in the way of some anti-white hatred.
You mean like wealthy tennis players... wealthy yachtsmen etc etc
Race on everything, here we go again
Maybe because they're the only people that watch it because it's boring?
For goodness sake, this is ridiculous nonsense!
Oh I know...I know.
Boring
There's a West Indian and potentially two more players of Pakistani origin about to line up for England in a World Cup Semi-final today. What absolute drivel.
This is so dumb.
Really
Yes yes I get it, White people bad, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
Oh never mind
India a british colony for years yet no white players.
What ?
Sky news trying to stir the shit for a non story. Nothing new there.....
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