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Azeem Rafiq

June 2024

  • Portrait of Azeem Rafiq

    Azeem Rafiq on racism, cricket and why he had to leave Britain: ‘I never started this to be popular’

    After his revelations about Yorkshire county cricket club, he had to move his whole family to another country. Now he’s releasing a memoir about the abuse that led him to speak out – and the attacks he has faced since

January 2024

  • Colin Graves

    Colin Graves apologises for racism at Yorkshire after takeover approved

    Colin Graves’s return to Yorkshire CCC will be subject to a member vote at an extraordinary general meeting on 2 February
  • Yorkshire players take to the field in the County Championship.

    Moral and financial failure at Yorkshire is set to allow Colin Graves back in the door

    Azeem Rafiq
    The club’s sponsors must stand up to the likely return of a man who dismissed racism as ‘banter’ – or we are back where we started
  • Play takes place in front of the pavilion at Headingley

    How Colin Graves became frontrunner to take Yorkshire over again

    With club deep in debt and running out of time and solutions, the former chairman appears to be on his way back

October 2023

  • Harry Chathli with Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson

    Yorkshire chair Harry Chathli willing to talk to Azeem Rafiq to help club heal

    Harry Chathli insisted the club culture has changed at Yorkshire after a ‘dark period’ said his new role was ‘the most exciting job in English cricket’

July 2023

  • Azeem Rafiq arrives ahead of the CDC panel into the Yorkshire racism case.

    Yorkshire fined £400,000 and docked points over cricket racism scandal

    Yorkshire have been hit with points deductions in two formats and fined £400,000 over the racism scandal linked to their former player Azeem Rafiq

June 2023

  • Mihir Bose

    If you want to make cricket truly diverse, don’t fixate on bat and ball – focus on what happens in the tea break

    Mihir Bose
  • Dark skies at Headingley cricket ground.

    Gloom at Yorkshire as proposed punishment emerges for scandal

  • Former Yorkshire bowler Azeem Rafiq admitted he had mixed emotions following the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket's damning report into discrimination in English cricket

    'Upsetting': Azeem Rafiq highlights inaction of fellow players after ICEC report – video

  • England Nets Session<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 27: Ben Stokes of England speaks during a press conference at an England nets session at Lord's Cricket Ground on June 27, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

    Ben Stokes ‘deeply sorry’ to hear of cricket discrimination detailed in report

  • ECB calls for Yorkshire to be hit with record fine over Rafiq scandal

  • English cricket’s reign of shame exposed with devastating admission of guilt

    Jonathan Liew

  • ECB criticises Colin Graves for calling racism at Yorkshire ‘banter’

May 2023

  • Former player Azeem Rafiq arrives to attend the Cricket Discipline Commission hearing in March

    Six former Yorkshire players sanctioned by CDC in Azeem Rafiq racism case

  • Azeem Rafiq racism case<br>A Yorkshire County Cricket Club sign that reads "Challenge it. Report it. Stop it. Leeds no place for hate" outside Yorkshire County Cricket Club's Headingley Stadium in Leeds. The club is facing mounting pressure from concerned politicians and departing sponsors after former England batter Gary Ballance has confessed to using "a racial slur" against his ex-Yorkshire team-mate Azeem Rafiq. Picture date: Thursday November 4, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story CRICKET Rafiq. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

    Three Yorkshire players found guilty in racism scandal ‘will refuse to pay fines’

April 2023

  • Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

    Yorkshire to learn punishment next week in Azeem Rafiq racism scandal

    Yorkshire could face fine or points deduction after accepting four amended charges of bringing the game into disrepute
  • Azeem Rafiq’s interview in July 2020 has changed lives beyond recognition.

    The Spin newsletter
    Where has cricket landed in the wake of the Yorkshire racism saga?

    Three years on from my interview with Azeem Rafiq, it’s surreal to see where we and the game have ended up

    • ECB’s Richard Gould calls banter ‘a swear word’ after Yorkshire scandal

    • Azeem Rafiq open to meeting Michael Vaughan in wake of racism case

    • Sportblog
      Yorkshire racism hearing reached one clear verdict: from now on there is no excuse

      Mark Ramprakash
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