Bilal Shafayat is yet to play for England. But his name has circulated in the Ashes almost as if he were a member of England's playing eleven. A journalist though paid heavily for portraying his thoughts the wrong way and ended up getting sued.
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Shafayat played the role of the twelfth match in the crucial first Test of the Ashes at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, and was seen running to the middle of the field on a couple of occasions as Australia struggled to break the final wicket partnership of James Anderson and Monty Panesar, much to the annoyance of the Australian captain, Ricky Ponting who dubbed it akin to time wasting tactics.
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However, David Penberthy, who works for the allegedly Rupert Murdoch owned 'The Punch', made the grave mistake of using a friend's racist sms about Nottinghamshire player Shafayat in his column. While he did not necessarily share his friend's views, or so he claims, it certainly showed the narrowminded nature of fans as also the journalists' imprudence in using such inflammatory remarks about someone's faith, in this case, of Bilal being a Muslim.
Now that Shafayat has won his case, he has awarded the remuneration as part of damages to Chance to Shine, a cricket charity initiative of the ECB.
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