Is there a question about playing tests in places where being gay is illegal?
I wouldn't feel comfortable with that. Apart from anything else once you start down that path where would it end?
I can think of very legitimate reasons for boycotting playing sport in the UK given our governments support of the Saudi regime.
I (perhaps in my rose tinted way) like to think that sport brings people together and helps to ease tensions rather than escalate them.
I may well be wrong but it's the way I feel.
PS there is also the positive effect Joe Root's statement will have had for gay people in the West Indies, in that they have seen a sports person sticking up for them. That is no small thing.
