It’s 2023 and folks nonetheless have a tough time accepting that completely different physique varieties don’t correspond with how wholesome somebody is. Cricketer Azam Shah is usually lowered to his physique form somewhat than the power he shows on the sphere and he has learnt to stay with it. However when pacer Naseem Shah ‘teased’ him by imitating his physique form throughout a match, Pakistani Twitter took a stand for Khan.
A video from a Bangladesh Premiere League match between the Khulna Tigers and Comilla Victorians has been circulating on social media the place Shah got here shut and tried to embrace Khan who pushed him away after an trade of phrases. After that, Shah adopted Khan and held his arms up in imitation of the unaware Khan’s stroll. What might have been thought-about humorous by the 19-year-old bowler was branded physique shaming by netizens.
They didn’t need the “bullying” to be mistaken for “teasing”.
No excuses are acceptable. For Twitter customers, 19 is sufficiently old.
Khan might haven’t stated something however that doesn’t imply he’s unaffected. Netizens identified that the batsman has been vocal about this on a number of events.
They need Shah to do higher.
Simply because Khan chooses to remodel negativity into motivation doesn’t imply he’s inviting it.
In a latest interview with ESPN Cric Information, the 24-year-old batsman revealed that he was criticised due to his weight proper after he obtained his large break within the PSL. He was advised that his physique is “not suited for the elite game [level] of cricket”. The cricketer has exerted himself on a number of events to show he deserves his place on the staff.
“It’s not about being overweight. It’s about performance. If a guy is scoring 400 runs and he is super-fit and another guy is scoring 800 runs and he is not super-fit, I will keep the guy who scored 800 runs in my team. That’s my point of view,” he added.
The world we stay in is, fortunately, rising extra thoughtful, and fewer toleratent of social norms and behaviours that do extra hurt than good. Whereas skinny might need been the physique sort everybody aspired for a decade or so in the past, proper now we’re on the observe of accepting the physique sort we now have. On our particular person journeys of embracing physique positivity, there isn’t a room for somebody being put down for the best way they give the impression of being.
Khan and Shah had been teammates as a part of the Quetta Gladiators within the PSL and are teammates for the BPL’s Khulna Tigers. We don’t know in the event that they’re buddies, however we do know that buddies don’t physique disgrace buddies.
