'Brown dogs, leave': Racial epithets hurled at Indian cricketers in Sydney

Published on 12-Jan-2021

Khushboo Razdan

NSW Police removing six Aussie fans from the crowd (L) after Indian cricketer Mohd. Siraj reported racial abuse to an on-duty umpire (R) during a 5-day Test match between India and Australia in Sydney, January 10, 2020. /AFP, Getty

Shame down under

"Brown dogs, leave. We don't like you." This is what two Indian cricketers allege they absorbed for two days during a five-day Test match between India and Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground before they decided to take it no more and reported the matter to on-duty umpires.

Players Mohd. Siraj and Jaspreet Bumrah were fielding near the boundary line when they "were referred to as 'brown dogs' and 'brown monkeys' by a group of Aussie fans," a source close to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the governing body of cricket in India, told news agency Press Trust of India (PTI).

The game was paused for 10 minutes and six "drunk" spectators were ejected from the stadium by New South Wales Police.

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