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RAFIQ’S RACISM CLAIMS CONFIRM ALL IS NOT ROSY

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The Cricket Paper Team
6 September 2020

Peter Hayter

Investigation: Azeem Rafi q playing for Yorkshire, and club chairman Roger Hutton inset
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Allegations of racism made against Yorkshire CCC by Azeem Rafiq, their former player and Twenty 20 captain, have reopened wounds that run deep and long at the White Rose county.
Rafiq, who was born in Pakistan, raised in Barnsley and on the staff at Headingley for ten years until he played his last match in 2018, told ESPN Cricinfo: “Do I think there is institutional racism (at Yorkshire)? It’s at its peak in my opinion. It’s worse than it&rsquo...