Yorkshire RACE STORM: New player alleges teammate URINATED on him

Yorkshire were suspended from staging international matches after the England and Wales Cricket Board strongly condemned their handling of a racism row involving Azeem Rafiq.

The Scandal also engulfed ex-England captain Michael Vaughan, who has denied allegations he had abused his one-time team-mate.

According to the Daily Mail, another player of Asian heritage has now come forward to state he was the victim of numerous instances of racist abuse, ‘both blatant and sly’ in the early 2000s.

The player, who has asked not to be named, said that “everyone in the Asian cricketing community has known Yorkshire County Cricket Club is racist”, and went so far as to reveal that he had “a player p*ss on my head”.

Previously, the 30-year-old Rafiq had accused Yorkshire of failing to deal adequately with his allegations of racism when he played for the English county.

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In September, Yorkshire offered the Pakistan-born off-spinner “profound and unreserved apologies” in a report commissioned by the club.

But last week Yorkshire said they would take no disciplinary action against any staff, unleashing a wave of criticism and prompting sponsors, including Nike, to turn their backs on the club.

In an escalation, the ECB on Thursday called Yorkshire’s handling of the case “wholly unacceptable” and the matter “abhorrent”.

They stripped Headingley, Yorkshire’s headquarters in Leeds, of the right to stage a Test between England and New Zealand in June 2022, as well as a one-day international with South Africa in July.

There was further drama when Vaughan, writing in his Daily Telegraph column, said the report commissioned by Yorkshire states he told a group of Asian players – including Rafiq – before a match against Nottinghamshire in 2009: “Too many of you lot, we need to do something about it.”

“I completely and categorically deny that I ever said those words,” Vaughan wrote in the newspaper.

“I will fight to the end to prove I am not that person.”

Rafiq, Yorkshire’s chairman and the county’s chief executive and director of cricket have all been summoned to testify before a parliamentary committee on November 16.

Publishing company Emerald have ended their title sponsorship of Headingley and Nike said they would “no longer be the kit supplier for Yorkshire CCC”.

Rafiq, who represented Yorkshire in two spells between 2008 and 2018, made 43 allegations and said he had been driven to thoughts of suicide by his treatment at the club.

Yorkshire’s redacted report upheld seven of his claims but concluded the club was not institutionally racist.

Additional reporting by: AFP

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