India, Feb. 4 -- Veteran Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja took a firm stand for a journalist who was fired from his job for posting on social media in support of Palestine. Peter Lalor, an Australian journalist, was sacked by SEN Radio when he was covering the Australia tour of Sri Lanka. Lalor revealed he was fired and told by the organisation that his 'retweeting was not balanced and insensitive to one side'.

However, Khawaja has always raised his voice in support of Palestine, and he continues to be an avid supporter of it as he expressed his shock at Lalor's firing on his Instagram story.

Meanwhile, Lalor revealed he received a couple of calls from the channel while commentating on Sri Lanka vs Australia's first Test on Day 3 and ...