Cricket and identity: Do British Asians face flak for supporting England?
With the India tour well under way 成人快手鈥檚 Desi Download has been taking a look at the subject of cricket and identity.
It鈥檚 nearly 25 years since Norman Tebbit suggested his cricket test. He said Britons of South Asian origin should be asked which cricket team they supported. If they didn鈥檛 follow England and were fans of India or Pakistan, he felt it showed that they had failed to integrate into British society.
However today are more British Asians choosing to support England, and are British Indians who play for, or support England facing flak?
In this extract 成人快手's Ruchi Tandon speaks to Ravi Bopara, Mark Ramprakash, and Wasim Khan to get their thoughts...
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