Players of the West Indies and England women’s cricket teams will take a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in all five games of an upcoming T20 International series. West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor said on Saturday that the teams would perform the gesture and praised her England counterpart Heather Knight for offering to join them in recognising the movement. “It’s very much what we want to do, and they’re going to support whatever we decide, and, yeah, we are going to be honouring the Black Lives Matter movement,” she was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo. Taylor said the support extended by the England women’s team meant a lot to them. Monday’s series opener will be the first women’s international since the T20 World Cup final between India and Australia in March.

Source: The Hindu September 20, 2020 09:11 UTC