Popular West Indies cricketer Daren Sammy has shocked the cricket fraternity with his allegation that he was subjected to racism when he was playing the Indian Premier League for Sunrisers Hyderabad. The cricketer revealed incidents which made him realise this, in a new video.

Sammy has said in the video that he was racially abused in 2013 and 2014 when he played for the Hyderabad team. Sammy revealed that only when he saw an episode of the Patriot Act by Indian-American comedian Hasan Minhaj where he spoke of racism in Indian households, he realised that India has the practice of calling dark members of the family as ‘kaalu’.

In the video, Sammy says “I remember that when I was with Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2013-14, I was being called the exact same word (‘kaalu’) that he described that was degrading to black people. I got angry about it. I will be messaging those people. You guys know who you are". Sammy was the captain of Sunrisers team in his second year.l with the team. It has been two days since Sammy posted this video, but there has been no official statement on the issue from neither the franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad nor the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

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So recently I discovered a word that I was being called was not what it actually meant I need some answers. So before I start calling out names I need these individuals to reach out and please tell me there’s another meaning to that word and when I was being called it,it was all in love. #blackandproud #blackandconfident #clarasboy #saynotoracism #stopracism #cricketer #stlucia

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