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Yorkshire County Cricket Club were slapped with a big 48-point reduction in the English County Championship on Friday after confessing 4 charges connected to the Azeem Rafiq bigotry scandal. The independent Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) likewise fined the club ₤ 400,000 ($514,000), ₤ 300,000 of which is suspended for 2 years. The points charge sends out Yorkshire to the bottom of Division Two of the County Championship. Pakistan-born bowler Rafiq, 32, went public with accusations of bigotry and bullying in September 2020, associated with his 2 spells at the English county.
The Yorkshire board released a declaration accepting the sanctions.
“The CDC and ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) have today acknowledged the huge quantity of work done by YCCC to conquer the cultural concerns that existed within the club, which enabled racist and inequitable behaviour to go undisputed,” it stated.
“We are responsible for these concerns, and we accepted 4 changed charges as part of an ongoing dedication to guarantee we have the ability to move on.”
The Yorkshire board included: “We are dissatisfied to get the point reductions which impacts gamers and personnel at the club, who were not accountable for the scenario.”
ECB president Richard Gould, who was not in post throughout the Rafiq scandal, stated: “There can be no location for bigotry in our video game, and the charges revealed by the Cricket Discipline Commission mark completion of an extensive disciplinary procedure.
“No one needs to need to experience what Azeem Rafiq went through in cricket, and we as soon as again thank him for his guts in speaking up.”
6 previous Yorkshire gamers were formerly fined by the CDC after being condemned of utilizing racist language.
Independently, a damning report by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) last month exposed “prevalent” bigotry, sexism and classism in English cricket.
The ICEC was developed in 2021 following the bigotry scandal surrounding the treatment of Rafiq.
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