Is English cricket, not just Yorkshire cricket, institutionally racist?

Cricket may be 'old boy' at Lords, but I bet the Yorkshire management are just ordinary guys exercising ordinary racism. Remember, it included all the coaches, and other staff.

I think it is a distillation of the racism that is prevalent at all levels poured into the very English culture of cricket at every level. Azeem said it happened at local club level.

In Claggthorpe, Coaltown and Cottonville, club adminstrators are state school and labour voters to a man - and they were just as racist as the those running the county club.

The three named people should stop denying it and apologise.
Hopefully they would not do it these days but back then it was rife and the victims were afraid to make a fuss in some cases as Azeem himself said, not realising it should not be occurring.

I watched it live yesterday morning. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, and I’m not naive where racism is concerned.

he has actually named people too

Good for him but it is awful he and others are subjected to this. Instead of people (high profile) sweeping it under the carpet, it needs to be dealt with properly

I listened to an hour of Azeem Rafiq’s testimony as I was driving a distance yesterday. I wasn’t surprised at the casual racism but it was shocking to hear that white players told the Asian players - you lot, sit over there (near the toilets). Called them elephant washers, used the P word frequently. For Yorkshire to claim in its initial response that calling someone a P is ‘banter’ speaks volumes about institutional racism.

20 years ago, my 5 year old grandson was in trouble with his mum for ‘using a very bad word’ in a row with his brother. They lived in an area with a large Pakistani Muslim population. He called his brother a P because he’d heard this insult at school and knew it’s power. His mum was right on it, neither boy ever used the word again. How come 20 years later, some people claim not to understand.

It's just "not cricket" Is it Scones?

I once shared a house with a professional cricketer. I can't honestly say I thought he was racist, but he was one of the most amoral, self-centred, vain and badly behaved people I have ever encountered. He had absolutely no regard for other people or their property. He eventually married a woman who was an out and out racist.

If he's anything to go by I can imagine professional cricket is a cesspool.

Racism in cricket

Misoginism and sleaze in the Tory Party

Could this possibly be linked to the ethos of boys only private schools?

Remember the government Sewell report?

No institutional racism in the U.K.

We knew it was wrong.