Why Tamil cricket players Muttiah Muralitharan and Angelo Matthews have not spoken out boycotting Sri Lankan cricket?

 

“No they haven’t said that. They prefer to stay silent. Because in our opinion, their cricket careers are more important, than this issue to them."

 

"They try and say that politics and sport should be separated, but we all know, anybody who has worked in sport, like I have for 40 years, knows that they are inextricably entwined."

 

-Trevor Grant, a former chief cricket writer at The Age

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When questioned regarding how the South African sporting boycott was based on the country’s racist selection policies, and how such a policy does not overtly exist in Sri Lanka, Grant replied,

 

“There is still very much an issue of war crimes and this leads into the issue of selection, though it’s not about selection at the selection table, but it is about selection of Tamils."

 

"There has been only something like half a dozen of Tamils play cricket for Sri Lanka over the past 20 or 30 years. What’s the reason for it?"

 

"Well I think if you look at an oppressed minority, like the Tamils have been for so long, they love cricket the Tamils, but they never get the chance, they never get the conditions for their children to come through to try and match the majority Sinhalese when they get to selection and that sort of thing in junior teams. The facilities and all that are much worse for Tamils."