Former Yorkshire participant Azeem Rafiq mentioned he has acquired racist messages on social media following the membership’s approval of a mortgage provide from a consortium headed by ex-chairman Colin Graves.
Yorkshire have been fined 400,000 kilos ($510,560) and handed a 48-point deduction within the County Championship final 12 months after an investigation into racism allegations by Rafiq, who mentioned in 2021 he had been a sufferer of institutional racism on the membership.
Graves was chairman of the membership between 2012-2015, a part of the interval throughout which Yorkshire was accused of failing to handle, and take enough motion in opposition to, racist and discriminatory language.
Rafiq has been a vocal opponent of Graves’s return to the membership and informed the BBC in an interview printed on Thursday he was “struggling to understand how we’ve got here” and that he felt a mixture of frustration and anger.
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“It sends the message loud and clear to South Asians that cricket is not a welcoming and safe place for us,” added Rafiq, who has beforehand mentioned the tradition of racism at Yorkshire drove him to the brink of suicide.
“I’ve woken up this morning to a barrage of abuse – racist, Islamophobic, all sorts of things I’ve had in my DMs – this is what (Graves’ return) empowers. It empowers those idiots out there who feel they can be openly racist.”
Graves has denied data of racist behaviour throughout his tenure at Yorkshire. He beforehand advised that a number of the incidents have been “banter” however on Thursday issued an apology to anybody who suffered racism on the membership.
Yorkshire’s board on Wednesday authorised the mortgage provide, with British media reporting that the consortium had supplied an instantaneous mortgage of 1 million kilos, which might be adopted by additional funding of 4 million kilos.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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