Amir Khan said eating curry was ‘not the right eating routine to be a hero’ which ‘set off’ Azeem Rafiq

Previous Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq has said he was “set off” by remarks about Asian competitors made by the fighter Amir Khan this week.

The previous welterweight champion said on Monday that Asian competitors blame bigotry when they don’t perform well and that eating curry was “not the right eating regimen to be a hero”.

Rafiq, who was found to have been a casualty of “racial provocation and tormenting” at Yorkshire Country Cricket Club, told; “Khan’s remarks build up sluggish generalizations about Asian competitors when there’s unmistakable information out there to negate that.”

The cricketer’s charges of institutional bigotry at Yorkshire prompted government intercession, a few abdications on the region’s board and a prohibition on the club facilitating Tests.

“It is especially miserable on the grounds that it comes from somebody who propelled whole networks to take up sport,” Rafiq, 31, said.

“What’s more, frankly, it set off me. I experience everyday, and I find life unbelievably troublesome as somebody who has persevered through misuse.

Also, as per Amir Khan, I’m simply concocting a rationalization.”

Khan, 35, won silver at 17 years old in the 2004 Olympics and held welterweight titles somewhere in the range of 2009 and 2012.

He has since driven a superstar way of life, showing up on TV series I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and At Home With The Khans.

At a news meeting to check his retirement on Monday, Khan said in remarks revealed in The Guardian: “Individuals used to say: ‘We are Muslim, we are Asian, we can’t make it in boxing. We won’t be picked.’ It’s a reason that all Asians use – that we’re never going to be picked.”

He proceeded: “Take a gander at football, for instance. There are no Asian footballers except for think about what they all say? ‘We will not get picked on the grounds that we’re Asian.

‘ I believe that is a f**ing heap of bull*, truly. It’s a heap of b***. Asians, when we can’t partially, surrender. We don’t have it in us.

“See, us Asians are not exactly intended to be warriors. We shouldn’t be great athletes and ladies. Our eating routine is horrifying. It’s curries. It’s not the right eating routine to be a hero.

Assuming you put us against a ton of English contenders their eating routine is much better. They’re more grounded than us.”

Correspondence bunches portrayed Khan’s remarks as “perplexing”.

“The game area has been attempting to turn out to be more enemy of bigot, progress is happening however there is as yet far to go to fix foundational prejudice,” said Arun Kang, CEO of Sporting Equals.

“It is confounding and incredibly baffling as Amir has now additionally supported generalizations the British South Asian people group has long battled to lessen.

“Such deceived and misinformed remarks have truly hurt the local area.”

In May, Crawley FC ended the agreement of chief John Yems after he was blamed for over and over utilizing hostile bigoted language and isolating changing rooms along race lines in a move portrayed as “cutting edge politically-sanctioned racial segregation”.

Khan declined to remark.