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The ECB’s Cricket Discipline Commission has published its sanctions against the six former Yorkshire players who were found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by using racist language towards Azeem Rafiq, imposing fines ranging from £2,500 to £6,000 and adding a “strong recommendation” they should undertake anti-racism training courses at their own expense.
Six former Yorkshire cricketers found guilty of racial abuse at the club were on Friday fined a total of 22,000 pounds by the Cricket Discipline Commission. But the punishments, which include suspensions if they return to cricket, are down from what the ECB had pushed for fines totalling £37,000 at a hearing on May 3. John Blain, Tim Bresnan, Andrew Gale, Matthew Hoggard and Richard Pyrah were all found guilty of breaching ECB Directive 3.3 following a CDC hearing in March.
Six former Yorkshire players found guilty of using racist language in the Azeem Rafiq case have been fined by the Cricket Discipline Commission.
Six former Yorkshire players have been sanctioned for the alleged use of racist and discriminatory language in verdicts released by the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) panel on Friday.
LONDON: Six former cricket players in the UK are set to be sanctioned today following a hearing that confirmed their use of racist language against Pakistani teammates, The Independent reported.
Yorkshire are expected to discover next week what punitive measures will be taken against them after accepting four amended charges of bringing the game into disrepute in the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal.
L ooking back at the footage now, Trent Bridge, 22 June 2009, the players of Yorkshire CCC about to walk out on to the field to face Nottinghamshire in the late evening sunshine, it is hard not to feel a sense of English cricket’s own Zapruder film being spliced into place. Every act, every cutaway, every pause, every edit seems undercut by a sense of historical weight, the smiles, the backslaps, the grassy knoll, the man smoking by the fence, details that will be pored over by endless sets of eyes, meshed and overlaid into their own competing Warren Commissions.
At the end of a bruising disciplinary process undertaken to address charges of discriminatory language and behaviour at Yorkshire, the chair of the England and Wales Cricket Board, Richard Thompson, expressed his hope for peace.