The former England captain Michael Vaughan has been cleared of using racist and/or discriminatory language and bringing the game into disrepute by the ECB’s Cricket Discipline Commission
themselves – whose cases were not considered by the panel because they had admitted to the charges they were facing – will be decided at a separate hearing, still to be scheduled.
Vaughan was accused of telling a group of four players of Asian descent that “there’s too many of you lot” before a T20 game in June 2009. The 48-year-old denied doing so, and although three of the four other players involved remembered him using the phrase the CDC concluded that “having taken into account all the relevant evidence … the panel is not satisfied on the balance of probabilities that these words were spoken by Michael Vaughan at the time and in the specific circumstances alleged”.
Rafiq welcomed the decision to uphold the majority of those charges brought but said: “The issue has never been about individuals but the game as a whole.needs to understand the extent of its problems and address them. Hopefully, the structures of the game can now be rebuilt and institutionalised racism ended for good. It’s time to reflect, learn and implement change.”
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