Yorkshire cancelled crucial meeting because it was not ‘properly called’

Yorkshire said they were forced to cancel a crucial meeting on Wednesday because club members should only have been notified of it by post.

The extraordinary general meeting, which had been due to start at 6pm on Wednesday evening, had been seen as a key step in the county’s governance overhaul in the wake of the Azeem Rafiq racism crisis.

It was also expected that a decision by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on whether to restore international cricket to Headingley this summer would be taken based on the outcome of the EGM, but it was cancelled at short notice on Wednesday afternoon, with Yorkshire’s initial statement saying it had not been “properly called”.

Notice of this EGM should properly have been given to members by post only, rather than by post and electronic means including the YCCC website.- Yorkshire County Cricket Club

They provided further details for the cancellation on Wednesday evening, stating it was due to a “legacy issue” – that the county’s former leadership had not registered amended club rules with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

“Owing to this failure to register the changes, the club now understands that the notice of the 2021 meeting and this EGM should properly have been given to members by post only, rather than by post and electronic means including the YCCC website (as members had approved by passing the resolution at the 2020 meeting),” a club statement read.

“Accordingly the notices of the meetings at the time they were called – before the registration of the changes with the FCA – were invalid until the FCA registration was completed.

“Following discovery of this oversight, YCCC has now rectified the position: the rule changes in 2020 and 2021 have been filed with the