5 times cricket was tainted with racism

Dean Jones calls Amla a 'terrorist', packed off back to Australia

Dean Jones' contract with Ten Sports was terminated following his 'terrorist' remark.

The most freakish of these incidents occurred during South Africa’s tour of Sri Lanka in 2006 and involved former Aussie cricketer-turned-commentator Dean Jones, then part of Ten Sports’ panel of commentators. On Day 4 of the second Test of the series at Colombo, Shaun Pollock had enticed Kumar Sangakkara into driving uppishly into the hands of Hashim Amla at point. As the South African team huddled together and cameras zoomed in on Amla, who had just taken a good, low catch, Dean Jones was heard saying, ‘The ‘terrorist’ gets another wicket’. The host broadcasters had cut to a commercial break at the fall of this wicket, but microphones picked up this remark by Jones from somewhere in the background and live feed from SuperSport, a South African channel, carried it to audiences in the country. Though Jones was quick to term his own remark ‘insensitive’ and stupid and tender an apology to Amla, the mishap saw his commentary stint with Ten Sports end abruptly.