Khawaja has been asked to join a Cricket Australia working group looking at increasing diversity in the game. “When it comes to diversity … I think we’ve been okay at it but we’re still just not quite there,” he said. “If you look at the landscape in terms of multicultural cricketers around, we’ve got a few subcontinental cricketers (but) we’ve still got a long way to go.” The 33-year-old said that attracting players with similar backgrounds to his would require convincing their parents that they could get an education while playing the game, and doing more to support the youngsters at the grassroots. “The racism has been both overt and casual but I had the confidence to speak up when something didn’t feel right, and I know not everyone does,” said Khawaja. “Kids need to be given support. We need to let them know, ‘Hey, you’re not the only person going through this, we’ve been through this, we’ve seen this, we’ve dealt with it and we’ve pushed on. You can do the same thing’. “Because when you do come up through the ranks now, they are all great people. They don’t give a crap who you are or where you come from.”
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