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New Zealand was given a target of 369 runs to win the first Test against Australia.
Australia’s tour of New Zealand 2024, NZ vs AUS: Australia’s experienced opening batsman Usman Khawaja (usman khawaja) was forced to remove the pigeon logo from his bat on the third day of the first Test being played against New Zealand at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.
The incident occurred in the 19th over of the second innings of the Australian cricket team, when Usman Khawaja asked for a new bat as his bat was broken. After which Australia’s 12th player Matthew Renshaw came out of the dugout with some bats, and Khawaja chose one bat.
Usman Khawaja forced to remove pigeon sticker from his bat
But the bat the Australian opener chose had a pigeon logo on it, and he had to remove it. Usman Khawaja immediately removed the human rights sticker of a dove holding an olive branch. In fact, the International Cricket Council (ICC) had rejected Khawaja’s request to display the human rights logo of a dove holding an olive branch during the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan last year.
As a result, even before getting involved in any controversy, Usman Khawaja removed that sticker in Wellington, the pictures and videos of which are going viral on social media. The 37-year-old batsman wanted to put up this sticker to raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
See that viral picture here:
Usman Khawaja was forced to remove a dove sticker from his bat on day three of the Wellington Test.
#NZvAUS pic.twitter.com/qiveyDmNOd
— Ops Sports (@SportsFunFan) March 2, 2024
Usman Khawaja was forced to remove a dove sticker from his bat on day three of the Wellington Test. #NZVAUS pic.twitter.com/yE5Y8FlWFk
— Nibraz Ramzan (@nibraz88cricket) March 2, 2024
Meanwhile, Glenn Phillips dismissed Khawaja for 28 runs in the morning session on the third day in Wellington. Australia were all out for 164 runs in their second innings, and New Zealand were set a target of 369 runs to win.
Let us tell you, Khawaja was earlier also stopped from wearing shoes displaying the messages “All lives are equal” and “Freedom is a human right”. The Australia batsman was also reprimanded for using the black stripe during the match.
