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The BBC have announced that Michael Vaughan will return to their cricket coverage later today on the 5 Live Cricket Programme.

Vaughan was stood down from his role as a cricket commentator and pundit by the BBC in November and did not feature in their coverage of the Ashes after he was implicated in the Yorkshire racism scandal. Azeem Rafiq, who played alongside Vaughan at Yorkshire, accused the former England captain of making a racially insensitive remark to a group of Asian players during a match in 2009.

It was alleged that Vaughan told the players: "There are too many of you lot, we need to do something about it." Former Yorkshire overseas player Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and current England star Adil Rashid have both backed up Rafiq's allegations. However, Vaughan has categorically and repeatedly denied the allegation.

The former England captain did commentate on the Ashes for host broadcaster Fox Sports and has since worked as a pundit with BT Sport on the recent series between England and the West Indies. And Vaughan will make his first appearance back on the BBC this evening as part of the 5 Live Cricket Programme which will be broadcast from 21:00-22:00 BST.

Other guests on the programme include James Anderson, Phil Tufnell and Carlos Brathwaite. It comes after Vaughan recently revealed that he had been on a diversity and inclusion course after receiving advice from Simon Green, the head of BT Sport.

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