‘Blacks are apes’ Vermeulen banned

“Racism is abominable and there can be no defence for it”, Cricket Zimbabwe said in a statement. Mark Vermeulen, who has a history of disciplinary problems has been banned from all cricketing activities by Zimbabwe Cricket. “If we had left them in the bush and never educated them prosper wouldn’t be having these problems because he would be living happily in his mud hut eating ground up maize so of course it’s our fault every single problem a black has is because of white people that’s why racism is only able to work one way because we basically fxxxd up the apes’ lives”. “Zimbabwe Cricket has with quick impact banned Mark Vermeulen from taking part in all cricket formats, after he possessed up to loathsome comments that reflect racism, preference and plain lack of awareness”, the board said in an announcement.

The remarks, in which Vermeulen utilized an injurious term to allude to dark Zimbabweans, were erased not long after he made them however a screenshot of the post was later coursed.

Zimbabwe Cricket informed the media that it looked into the comments posted on Facebook by the batsman.

Vermeulen offered an apology, which was published by Zimbabwe Cricket in a Facebook post. In it, the former global said that he had made a personal apology to Utseya, and that it had been accepted.

Vermeulen also admitted that he knew his comments were over the top and wished to apologize to all that he had offended. Be that as it may, as a cricketer, it’s the way our brains work. He was banned from representing his school, Prince Edward High in Harare, for walking off with the stumps after receiving a poor lbw decision and locking himself in the changing room.

In 2008, Vermeulen escaped a conviction for arson because of mental illness, after setting fire to two Zimbabwe cricket buildings in 2006.

Vermeulen has featured in nine Tests and 43 one-day internationals for his country, but it is certainly not the first time he has been involved in controversy during his career. He was banned from playing cricket in England for ten years after an altercation with a few spectators during a club game and, most infamously, he burned down Zimbabwe’s cricket academy in 2006 in retaliation for being overlooked by the national side.