So you take an uneducated youth from a village in a Third World country with deeply conservative social values, and where things which are considered deeply misogynistic and offensive by western people (marital rape, ideals of premarital female virginity) are considered normal.
And this person then plays cricket in Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies, where sex outside marriage is universal and normal.
And you are surprised when this uneducated fish-out-of-Water doesn’t know how to behave?
And you are surprised when he resorts to coercive behaviour against a woman whom he probably views as inferior because of her willingness to have a sexual relationship?
Let me just remind you of incidents which are in the public domain:
Imran Khan had countless assignations, but because of his westernised upbringing knew how to treat western women so avoided scandal.
Saqlain Mushtaq and Mohammad Akram actually caused the 1998 Johannesburg Test to be delayed by a day when they got beaten up.
(I might add that Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis and Mushtaq Ahmed caused a similar delay to a Test in the Caribbean five years earlier when they were arrested for drug possession).
Brett Lee and Shane Warne took a further 800 Test wickets between them after being blackmailed by the uncle of an underage girl.
Elite sportsmen often take advantage of the sexual opportunities that their celebrity creates.
The key is for their Cricket Board to provide proper education and training about how to treat women.
