LONDON The “ drinking culture” in county brigades was incompletely responsible for Asian and Black players not getting enough openings in English justice, former West Indies transnational Tino Best has said Former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq’s evidence to a British administrative commission on Tuesday has thrown a limelight on racism in the sport in England, as well as its drinking culture Rafiq, a Muslim, recalled how he was projected down at his original justice club when he was 15 and had red wine poured down his throat by an unnamed player who played for Yorkshire and Hampshire.
The reproach has shaken English sport, cost Yorkshire guarantors and the right to host England internationals, seen the club’s top brass quit, and bogged some of the biggest names in English justice Stylish, who played with Rafiq at Yorkshire, told BBC Sport “ The culture around justice is drinking. That’s a big problem. People should n’t be dragooned to go into the club and drink eight or nine pints to be a part of the platoon.
Still, if you ’re not a part of the boys’ club, you ’re not going to get openings after justice, “ If you ’re not a part of the drinking culture. That’s commodity that’s hampering people of colour and Asian race Stylish, 40, said he recalled how players with Asian heritage similar as Rafiq, Adil Rashid and Ajmal Shahzad were treated at Yorkshire in 2010 and how they stressed damages if they went public with their complaints Me being a person of colour as well, I would always be with them as well.” He said they would complain every day about what they went through.
“ I would be like‘wow’,” he said. “ It was just astounding to hear what those guys were saying back in 2010. And there was no platform for them to really open up, because guys would have presumably lost contracts, presumably demurred out of the club. Guys were fearful of that.”
On Wednesday, former England batsman Alex Hales denied there was “ any ethnical connotation” in the name of his canine after allegations by Rafiq Rafiq told a British administrative commission on Tuesday that former platoon mate Gary Ballance used‘Kevin’as a depreciatory term and that Hales had given his canine that name because the beast was black Having heard the allegations made against me, I categorically and absolutely deny there was any ethnical connotation in the picking of my canine,” Hales, who plays for Nottinghamshire, said in a statement.
“ I entirely admire and have huge sympathy for both the station Azeem Rafiq has taken and what he has had to endure. His substantiation was harrowing.
“ There’s no place for racism or demarcation of any kind by justice and I’ll reluctantly co-operate with any disquisition the game’s authorities choose to hold Nottinghamshire said in a statement that, following Tuesday’s evidence to the select commission, they had “ commenced the applicable internal process and will continue to liaise with Alex and his counsels consequently.”