Kumar Sangakkara has prompt that Ryanair’s employees have been ‘racist’ because the cricketing legend’s row with the finances airline intensifies.
The Sri Lankan icon beforehand accused employees of ‘discriminatory’ and ‘threatening’ behaviour in the direction of him and his household throughout a latest journey by way of Dublin Airport.
A press release from Ryanair alleged that Sangakkara had ‘refused to offer the required visa documentation’ through the altercation.
However the 49-year-old has since stood his floor on social media, stressing that he and his household had suffered an expertise which was removed from the norm.
Accused by one person on X that, on account of his celeb standing, he was now unable to recognise being handled equally, Sangakkara hit again, going into extra element about his expertise with a extra pointed accusation.
‘When informed folks such as you together with your form of passports ought to count on this therapy and that if we argued in opposition to that clearly disgusting remark we might be thought-about a menace to different passengers and never boarded is just not treating everybody precisely the identical however it’s racist,’ Sangakkara wrote.
Cricketing legend Kumar Sangakkara (pictured along with his spouse in 2024) has accused Ryanair of racism after an incident at Dublin Airport (Supply: Instagram/Kumar Sangakkara)
Posting to X, the Sri Lankan icon alleged that he had not acquired equal therapy
Day by day Mail Sport has contacted Sangakkara and Ryanair for remark.
Initially, Sangakkara alerted his followers to the incident by writing: ‘Has anybody skilled discriminatory gate personnel @Ryanair in Dublin?
‘I with my household simply did and it was stunning. The tone of tackle and the mishandling of process and threatening conduct. Unacceptable for any passenger. First unhealthy expertise in Dublin.’
Amongst these involved along with his therapy was Piers Morgan, who shared a message of help for the previous wicketkeeper-batter.
He wrote: ‘Not often met a extra first rate, dignified man than Kumar. For him to say this, it should have been actually shameful behaviour. I hope you take care of this urgently & correctly @Ryanair.’
Sangakkara additionally interacted with Sri Lankan businessman Sanjiva Weerawarana after he shared his personal experiences of discrimination overseas.
He wrote: ‘Kumar, I’ve skilled discrimination in each a part of the west. I lived there for 16 years, travelled backwards and forwards for one more 25 and now I am carried out.’
Sangakkara, a former Sri Lanka captain, replied: ‘It’s fairly jarring if you expertise it @sanjiva.’
One other fan expressed their disappointment and shock that the 49-year-old had confronted discrimination, to which Sangakkara responded: ‘Nobody ought to expertise it not simply me.’
Sangakkara performed 134 Assessments, 404 ODIs and 56 T20Is for his nation, racking up 28,016 worldwide runs. That places him third on the all-time record behind Indian greats Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli.
The 49-year-old now lives primarily in Dorset after transferring there along with his household in early 2022, whereas he’s additionally identified to have a property in Galle, Sri Lanka. He met his spouse Yhali after they have been at college they usually had twins collectively in 2009.
Alongside his work as a pundit for Sky Sports activities, which has included England’s present tri-series with Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Sangakkara is the pinnacle coach and director of cricket of IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals.
