‘I was called Osama’: England’s Moeen Ali on ‘racial abuse’, his cricket and his faith | ITV News

In our latest episode of Young, British and Muslim, presented by Rageh Omaar, we speak to England cricketer Moeen Ali.

He has opened up to us following claims made in his autobiography that he was racially abused during an Ashes match against Australia.

The all-rounder alleges that during a 2015 match a player on the Australian team called him "Osama", seemingly referring to former Taliban leader Osama Bin Laden.

"I couldn't believe what I had heard," Ali told us of one of the starkest moments of prejudice the practising Muslim has faced during his career.

In his book, Moeen, Ali says he confronted the player at the end of the series which England won, but the man who remains unnamed denied it.

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