Yorkshire could learn next week if international hosting rights will be restored

Yorkshire could discover next week if their right to stage international matches at Headingley will be restored.

The county had lucrative matches scheduled for this summer removed from them by the England and Wales Cricket Board last November over their handling of an investigation into allegations of racial harassment and bullying by former player Azeem Rafiq.

Members of Yorkshire’s leadership team, including new chair Lord Kamlesh Patel, will make a presentation to the ECB next Tuesday, with club members voting on changes to the county’s board structure at an extraordinary general meeting the following day.

ECB deputy chair Martin Darlow told a select committee hearing examining racism in cricket: “Once we’re through (the EGM), I anticipate the (ECB) board will be making a decision and considering their options soon after that.”

Lord Patel also revealed to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee that legal documents were being drawn up to remove Yorkshire board veto and observer powers held by the Colin Graves Trust.

Lord Patel’s predecessor, Roger Hutton, had told the committee in November that trustees had opposed his plans to remove chief executive Mark Arthur and director of cricket Martyn Moxon from the board over their response to the findings of the Rafiq report.

Committee chair Julian Knight told the PA news agency earlier this month he did not think Yorkshire’s right to host internationals should be restored until the role of the Trust was clarified and resolved.

In a statement at the start of Tuesday’s evidence session, Knight said former Yorkshire executive chairman Graves had declined two invitations to appear before the committee and said it was now time for him to “put up or shut up”.

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