T20 World Cup 2021: India Don't Take The Knee In Support Of BLM Movement In Match 28 vs New Zealand

India National Cricket Team didn’t take the knee in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the 28th match of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 against Kane Williamson-led New Zealand National Cricket Team at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday, October 31.

Sportspersons across the world have been taking the knee to showcase their support towards the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, several T20 World Cup 2021 teams have also been taking the knee before every World Cup game.

Meanwhile, in the first T20 World Cup 2021 game against Pakistan National Cricket Team, all the Indian players were seen taking the knee. However, surprisingly Pakistan players didn’t do that instead they had hands on hearts to showcase their support towards the BLM movement.

“That was communicated to us by the management. The Pakistan team agreed to pay their tribute to the same cause. We accepted our side of things and that was how it was decided,” Kohli said after the match.

India Don’t Take The Knee In Support Of BLM Movement In Match 28 vs New Zealand

Meanwhile, in the match against New Zealand, the Indian players didn’t take the knee even when all the New Zealand players were seen doing the gesture.

Previously a team source was even asked by The Indian express, “Was this a one-off gesture or will India continue to take the knee going ahead? to which the source replied:

“We have done it for now. Will see in the future”.

So now it looks like India will not take the knee in the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 fixtures.

Talking about the match India were off to a very poor start having lost 3 wickets in 8 overs. Ishan Kishan who opened the innings with KL Rahul scored only 4 runs, Rohit Sharma scored 14 and Rahul got out after scoring 18 runs. At the time of writing Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya are in the middle trying to rescue India after a top-order failure.

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