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  • Azeem Rafiq set to depart England after abuse and intimidation: document

    Azeem Rafiq, whose allegations of racism in Yorkshire resulted in a sequence of critiques into the tradition of the game, is leaving England to give protection to his circle of relatives from abuse and intimidation.

    In 2020, the 31-year-old unfolded about an “institutionally racist tradition” at Yorkshire, together with through former England gamers.

    The cricketer, whose circle of relatives moved to the United Kingdom from Pakistan after a trade spouse of his father used to be murdered following a bungled kidnapping try, is being subjected to abuse and threats, reported ‘Cricketer.com’. “Rafiq has won a sequence of threats each on-line and in particular person in recent years and in a single case, captured through CCTV previous this month, a person used to be noticed defecating within the lawn of the house the place his oldsters are living. In any other, a masked intruder used to be noticed prowling across the out of doors of the valuables,” the document mentioned.

    Rafiq’s father suffers from a scientific situation and desires an oxygen cylinder at all times. Rafiq and 4 others had been lately reprimanded through the England Cricket Self-discipline Fee to be used of “anti-Semitic language” on social media in 2011. Accepting the reprimand, Rafiq apologised to the Jewish neighborhood and mentioned he used to be embarrassed.

    Rafiq used to be the whistleblower within the Yorkshire racism scandal he first spoke about it in September 2020. He then gave his testimony to a bunch of MPs and mentioned he used to be “just about taking his personal existence” for the “poisonous” dressing room surroundings when Gary Ballance used to be appointed skipper all through his 2nd spell on the membership.

  • Michael Vaughan named on ECB Yorkshire racism charge- Document

    Yorkshire County Cricket Membership and 7 people were charged following an investigation into racism claims made via former participant Azeem Rafiq, the England and Wales Cricket Board printed on Wednesday.

    Rafiq, a former England under-19 captain of Pakistani descent, remaining yr alleged that he were a sufferer of institutional racism on the membership. The scandal shook English cricket to its core and resulted in a large number of adjustments in training and administrative workforce at Yorkshire.

    “The fees stand up from alleged breaches of ECB Directive 3.3 (behavior which is mistaken or that may be prejudicial to the pursuits of cricket or which would possibly deliver the ECB, the sport of cricket or any cricketer into disrepute) and the ECB Anti-Discrimination Code,” the governing frame stated in a remark.

    In step with a record via The Instances former England captain Michael Vaughan and 3 extra former England avid gamers — Matthew Hoggard, Tim Bresnan and Gary Ballance — are amongst the ones charged via the ECB.

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    Then again, Vaughan has categorically denied the costs.

    Bresnan, the previous England and Yorkshire bowler who introduced his retirement from taking part in this yr additionally denied allegations that he used racially offensive language.

    Every other Andrew Gale, the previous head trainer of Yorkshire, who used to be sacked this yr, may be amongst the ones being investigated for alleged use phrases like “P***” and “Raffa the Kaffir” all through the time Rafiq used to be a participant at Yorkshire.