: Yorkshire racism row: Adil Rashid backs Azeem Rafiq’s accusations against Michael Vaughan #IndiaNEWS England’s Adil Rashid has confirmed he heard former Test captain Michael Vaughan question the

Yorkshire racism row: Adil Rashid backs Azeem Rafiq’s accusations against Michael Vaughan #IndiaNEWS
England’s Adil Rashid has confirmed he heard former Test captain Michael Vaughan question the number of Asian players in the Yorkshire team, supporting an accusation made by an ex-teammate who branded the club institutionally racist.Former player Azeem Rafiq was found by an independent report to have been subject to “racial harassment and bullying???, with Yorkshire’s chairman and then chief executive resigning in the fall-out.Rashid, who has played 199 times for England across all formats, has spent his whole career at the county but has previously kept his counsel on the racism crisis engulfing the club.But he issued a statement on Monday via the Cricketer, echoing Rafiq’s claims against Vaughan, who also used to play for Yorkshire, related to a match in 2009.The ex-England skipper revealed earlier this month that he had been named in the independent investigation into Rafiq’s case but denies telling a group of team-mates of Asian ethnicity: “Too many of you lot, we need to do something about it???.Rashid, who was part of the England team who reached the semi-finals of the recently concluded T20 World Cup, wrote: “I wanted to concentrate as much as possible on my cricket and to avoid distractions to the detriment of the team but I can confirm Azeem...Read more

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