More developments on hearing for Azeem Rafiq’s case on racism emerge
In addition to the already existing claims about racism against Azeem Rafiq, it is now revealed that the former England captain Michael Vaughan will be the only individual who is charged and yet to appear at a disciplinary hearing which will reportedly take place in March.
With former English stars Andrew Gale, Matthew Hoggard, Tim Bresnan and John Blain refusing to engage with the process, Richard Pyrah, the former Yorkshire will also miss the process, as announced by the England and Wales Cricket board. The cricket discipline commission, however, is in no mood to back out and clarified that they will still hear the charges of the five individuals. Gary Ballance is the other individual who is playing for his home side Zimbabwe and also will not be present.
The County Yorkshire Cricket Club has acknowledged the four charges and so the four individuals would not be present at the hearing. The County said that they had taken the charges into account. “Today’s announcement is an important step forward for Yorkshire County Cricket Club as part of its journey to learn from the past,” chair Lord Kamlesh Patel was quoted as saying.
Rana Naved and Adil Rashid had heard Michael Vaughan talk derogatory language about Asian origin persons
“Since becoming chair it has been clear that we needed to accept and take accountability as a club for the cultural issues which allowed racist and discriminatory behaviour to go unchallenged,” Kamlesh was quoted as saying. The ECB said that the hearing would happen between March 1 and March 9.
Rafiq said some time back that Vaughan launched a scathing attack on the people who were of Asian origin and accused the latter of saying “too many of you lot, we need to do something about it”. England cricketer Adil Rashid claimed that the incident happened, backing Rafiq and former Pakistani cricketer Rana Naved has vouched for the same as well. Ajmal Shahzad categorically denied that Vaughan used such language and Vaughan vehemently disowned taking part in such an act. Rafiq spoke for the first time about his experiences in Yorkshire way back in August 2020, during an interview.
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