A damning independent report has concluded that institutional racism, sexism and classism are deep-rooted and widespread at all levels across English cricket StocksC_cricket reports:
The scale of the report and English cricket’s problems are illustrated by the fact that the ICEC have suggested 44 recommendations the ECB should undertake to rid the sport of discrimination. It also recommends significant investment from the ECB to level the playing field and create equal opportunities for all.
“This report makes clear that historic structures and systems have failed to prevent discrimination, and highlights the pain and exclusion this has caused. I am determined that this wake-up call for cricket in England and Wales should not be wasted. We will use this moment to demonstrate that it is a game for all and we have a duty to put this right for current and future generations.
Across the course of 370 pages, the report makes for damning reading on the game’s failures, saying: “Deeply rooted and widespread forms of structural and institutional racism continue to exist across the game. But this is not just about racism; as importantly, our work on gender and class also starkly highlights deeply rooted and widespread forms of structural and institutional sexism and class-based discrimination across the game.
“The persistence of interpersonal and structural racism in cricket is due, we believe, in part to a failure by the ECB to specifically and unambiguously name racism as a concern, at least until the recent crisis .
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