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Azeem Rafiq archetypal elaborate allegations of racism astatine Yorkshire successful September 2020The England and Wales Cricket Board has recommended Yorkshire are fined £500,000 and deducted points crossed each formats for their handling of the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal.
Former Yorkshire subordinate Rafiq said English cricket was "institutionally racist", and racist connection was utilized "constantly" astatine the club.
Yorkshire antecedently admitted 4 amended charges.
The Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) volition denote sanctions "soon".
The recommendations came connected the time a long-awaited autarkic report recovered racism, sexism, classism and elitism are "widespread" successful English and Welsh cricket.
The proposal of a £500,000 good was breached down successful narration to each complaint - £100,000 for the mishandling of Rafiq's case, £100,000 for the deletion and demolition of data, £150,000 for not taking enactment relating to racist behaviour, and £150,000 for the systemic usage of racist connection implicit a prolonged play astatine the club.
The ECB suggested £350,000 of this should beryllium suspended for 3 years, portion the remaining £150,000 should beryllium paid successful instalments.
Recommended sporting sanctions included a deduction of 48 to 72 points successful the 2023 County Championship, a deduction of 4 to six points successful the 2023 One-Day Cup, and a deduction of 4 to six points successful the 2023 T20 Blast.
ECB lawyer Jane Mulcahy KC said it had taken Yorkshire's fiscal presumption into relationship and is not trying to enactment the nine retired of business.
Yorkshire main enforcement Stephen Vaughan said successful March the nine had a £3.5m shortfall and a request to repay £14.9m to the Graves Trust - 1 of its large creditors.
Yorkshire's lawyer Daniel Stilitz KC asked the autarkic CDC sheet to instrumentality into information the "detriment" Yorkshire has already "suffered".
"What is striking astir this lawsuit is however acold beyond sometimes somewhat symbolic measures that Yorkshire has gone," helium said.
"We bash taxable that it's hard to deliberation of a lawsuit successful which an organisation which has embraced truthful forcefully the accidental to alteration itself successful this regard. In fairness, the ECB has accepted successful their submissions that the nine has undertaken important EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) enactment successful respect of each aspects of its operation.
"The past 2 years person been immoderate of the astir hard successful the club's full history. Yorkshire is not the lone nine to person issues with racism, arsenic the ICEC (Independent Commission for Equity successful Cricket) study contiguous acknowledges.
"Nor is cricket the lone athletics to person done so. But truly Yorkshire has been a lightning rod for concerns astir racism successful sports and its reputation, show and finances person suffered and proceed to endure arsenic a result."
Six ex-Yorkshire players recovered to person utilized racist connection astatine Yorkshire were sanctioned with fines and bans by the CDC successful May.
Former England skipper Michael Vaughan was cleared "on the equilibrium of probabilities" by the sheet of utilizing racist connection towards Rafiq.
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