Nothing unites Australia’s South Asian communities like cricket | Ben Pobjie
podcast, which explores South Asian perspectives on cricket in Australia and the sport’s role in bringing communities together and breaking down barriers.It was like tea brewing – it started slowly, then it grew and grew and grew and grew. The idea was floated of doing something with all the South Asian language groups, and then they said, cricket is your common theme, so why don’t you guys get together and do something with cricket.
Yeah, so that’s what we explored, to see why that is. There were a couple of reasons we explored: whether there was bias, unconscious bias that the selectors had; or is it the sticky word racism? We also found that South Asians, because they are first or second generation migrants, their focus, and their parents’ focus, was on career and education for the children.Because cricket is a full-time thing: you have to spend a lot of weekends in the fields, and it conflicts with their study time.
When we pitched the idea of different South Asian languages coming together and exploring this in Australia, it was an easy sell. Actually, we had more talent than we could put in eight episodes of the podcast. They were more than willing to come. And we had a good resource: Patrick Skene, who writes for– he is a very quote-unquote “influential” person. He has his personal charm, so he helped as well in finding a lot of the talent.
When I’m in Australia, I cheer for the Australian team, even when it plays against India or Sri Lanka or any South Asian team. But there are people who fix their allegiance in our community, and that’s perfectly acceptable. And in the same household you’ll find parents cheering for their homeland and their children cheering for Australia.
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