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Feb 2 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This is not a new story, but it should not be forgotten.
12 years ago, Yashasvi Jaiswal moved 1,000 miles from his home in rural Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai to try & become a cricketer. He moved by himself. He was 10.
At first he lived with his uncle. But that didn’t last long.
His uncle lived in Dadar, a northern suburb. The Mumbai commute being what it is, Jaiswal was losing hours each day in travel.
So he started working in a dairy shop in the city, in exchange for living space. But he couldn’t work enough & the shop owner threw him out. He was 11.
Nov 16, 2021 • 145 tweets • 80 min read
Fair warning: I’ll be spending today livetweeting the #DCMS hearings into Yorkshire’s treatment of players of colour, notably Azeem Rafiq.
Rafiq’s evidence starts at 9:30am, ex-Yorkshire chair Roger Hutton at 10:15am, and an ECB delegation at 11:15am.
#JusticeForAzeem
I’m watching on BBC Parliament, but it’s also available here:
The committee is chaired by Julian Knight, Tory MP for Solihull. There are 6 Tories inc. Knight, 4 Labour MPs and John Nicholson (Ochil & South Perthshire) of the SNP.
