Allegations made to a parliamentary committee may spark a wider reckoning
Azeem Rafiq, an English cricketer of Pakistani origin who played on and off for a decade for Yorkshire, a leading county side, had alleged in interviews and an employment-discrimination claim that racial taunts and bullying had driven him close to suicide. An investigation for Yorkshire conceded that he had been a “victim of racial harassment” but nothing more systematic. It imposed sanctions on no one.
When Mr Rafiq’s wife gave birth to a stillborn son, he told the committee, the club’s head coach suggested that he was making too big a deal of it. Other allegations included that some of his teammates had referred to players of Asian descent as “elephant washers” and frequently used the derisive moniker “Paki”. That word, the club report decided, had been “in the spirit of friendly banter”.
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