Racism in cricket: England and Wales Cricket Board reviewed 208 discrimination cases in 2021

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The England and Wales Cricket Board reviewed much than 200 complaints of alleged favoritism successful 2021.

The ECB made 12 commitments to beforehand equality, diverseness and inclusion, and has published updates connected its progress.

It said a caller strategy for dealing with complaints of favoritism had "taken longer than anticipated".

Still, it said 208 complaints were received past year, each of which person present been reviewed.

There were 36 abstracted cases - immoderate involving aggregate allegations - successful recreational cricket referred for further investigation. Of those, 12 stay nether probe portion 24 person been concluded.

They progressive 65 allegations of discrimination, of which 14 were substantiated during the probe process - 47 were unsubstantiated and six withdrawn oregon undetermined.

The figures travel aft the ECB pledged to follow a "standardised approach" to whistleblowing crossed cricket and creating a "better civilization of reporting and ailment management" which volition beryllium managed by a caller anti-discrimination unit.

The ECB said "full delivery" of the portion has "taken longer than anticipated" but a manager has been appointed and "the implementation program is being finalised".

"The ECB anticipates the archetypal signifier of the implementation program volition beryllium operational by the extremity of December 2022, followed by signifier 2 by outpouring 2023," it said.

There is different DCMS league astir racism successful cricket successful beforehand of MPs connected Tuesday.

Last month, disciplinary proceedings implicit charges against Yorkshire and 7 individuals were delayed until adjacent year.

The ECB besides vowed to proceed anti-discrimination grooming and astir 4,500 radical person completed the grooming successful 2022, including 97% of ECB employees.

The dressing country civilization has been reviewed for 30 teams crossed the men's and women's home games, arsenic good arsenic England women, England men's white-ball and disablement teams. The last league volition beryllium held with the England men's red-ball squad earlier the extremity of 2022.

The percent of boys and girls from ethnically divers backgrounds successful younker academies has increased, arsenic has taste diverseness connected nine boards (from 5% to 17%), portion pistillate practice connected boards has tripled (11% to 33%).

Female cricket connected the rise

Following connected from the occurrence of the women's Hundred and the England nationalist team, the ECB announced that the fig of clubs offering women and girls the accidental to play has risen by 12% since 2019 (to 1,050 successful total), portion determination has been a 75% emergence successful the fig of women's and girls teams (3,586).

Since 2019, determination has been a 54% summation successful radical attending England women's fixtures and the fig of pistillate summons buyers for the Hundred is up from 21% to 28%.

Elsewhere, escaped cricket is being played astatine 300 much schools successful little socio-economic areas, on with 200 much peculiar acquisition needs schools, portion 104 clubs are regularly delivering disablement cricket, up from 36 successful 2020.

One of the ECB programmes to summation taste diverseness successful cricket is called Dream Big, which is co-funded by Sport England and has seen 2,109 South Asian women unpaid arsenic relation models astatine grassroots level, portion 33% of participants connected ECB coaching courses person been from ethnically divers backgrounds.

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