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Former cricketer Azeem Rafiq has told a British parliamentary inquiry that he was “humiliated” by the racist abuse he suffered at Yorkshire cricket club. In more than an hour of testimony on Tuesday, Rafiq, who is of Pakistani descent, catalogued a damning culture of widespread racism at England’s most ...
The England and Wales Cricket Board has piled pressure on Yorkshire to publish its racism allegations investigation after praising the “considerable courage” of Azeem Rafiq for speaking up. Ian Watmore, the ECB's chair, said the governing body was looking forward to receiving a "copy of the report promptly" so ...
Azeem Rafiq has said Asian cricketers at Yorkshire are subjected to “differential treatment” and a culture of discriminatory comments as part of the evidence he has submitted to the club’s investigation into alleged racism. The former off-spinner, 29, was due to speak to the panel on Friday but, in ...
A second cricketer has made allegations of experiencing racism at Yorkshire, with the seamer Rana Naved-ul-Hasan claiming “systematic taunting” existed at the county, after the former spinner Azeem Rafiq outlined a culture of “institutional racism”. The 42-year-old former Pakistan international, who played for Yorkshire in 2008 and 2009, told ...
Yorkshire have been accused of being “institutionally racist” by Azeem Rafiq, with the former England Under-19s captain saying it left him close to taking his own life. Rafiq, 29, spent 10 seasons at Headingley in two spells before his release in 2018 and, in a wide-ranging interview with ESPNCricinfo, ...
London: Former England U-19 captain Azeem Rafiq has claimed that he was “close to committing suicide” during his stint with county side Yorkshire, accusing the club of being institutionally racist. The off-spinner, who was born in Karachi and also captained the club, said he felt like an outsider ...