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England won the T20 World Cup in cricket this week and during the celebrations England’s captain reminded Adil Rashid to leave and checked to see that he and Moeen Ali had left before they celebrated with champagne.

This obviously divided option online, but this is a tradition with a lot of sports teams to celebrate with champagne after a big victory. Surely this is fair enough and respectfully telling the Muslim players on the team that the champagne is the way. See the video below;

When Liverpool won the league back in 2020 Jordan Henderson confirmed that they used no alcoholic champagne out of respect for the Muslim players on the Liverpool team.

This article first appeared on BenchWarmers and was syndicated with permission.

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