Cricket: Former England batter Rainford-Brent target of racist hate
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 [November 18, 2021]
(Reuters) - Former England cricketer
Ebony Rainford-Brent revealed on Wednesday she had received hate
mail with racist abuse where the sender had asked her to "leave our
country".
Rainford-Brent, the first Black woman to play for England when she
made her debut in 2001 aged 17, shared an image of the handwritten
letter on social media -- two days after Azeem Rafiq gave damning
testimony that catalogued racism in the sport.
The letter contained a number of expletives and asked the
37-year-old, 'Who invited you to my country?' and described her as
"illiterate, primitive" and being found "naked in Africa".
"Interesting... Born in South London but apparently I was found
naked in Africa as a primitive. Had some letters in my time but this
one (is) up there," Rainford-Brent wrote on Twitter
https://twitter.com/ejrainfordbrent/status/
1461058046650691584.
Rainford-Brent played for England for nine years and was awarded the
MBE in the Queen's birthday honours list earlier this year for her
services to the sport and charity.
Now a commentator, she teamed up with former West Indies cricketer
Michael Holding last year to discuss racism and the Black Lives
Matter movement.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian
Schmollinger)
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Former England womens cricketer Ebony Rainford-Brent, as play
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