Essex have been charged by the Cricket Regulator with failing to deal with alleged “systemic” racist language and conduct on the membership between 2001 and 2010.
The county have been charged with breaching Directive 3.3 of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
The Cricket Regulator mentioned in an announcement: “ECB Directive 3.3 considerations conduct, acts or omissions which can be prejudicial to the pursuits of cricket or which can carry the sport of cricket or any cricketer or group of cricketers into disrepute.
“It’s alleged by the Cricket Regulator that there was systemic use of racist and/or discriminatory language and/or conduct at Essex, through the interval between 2001 and 2010, which Essex failed to deal with.
“An unbiased panel of the Cricket Self-discipline Fee will hear the case sooner or later.”
Essex mentioned that they had absolutely co-operated with the Cricket Regulator and would proceed to take action, and that they intend to “take part willingly” with the Cricket Self-discipline Fee which is able to hear the case.
In 2021 Essex commissioned an unbiased report into allegations of racist language and conduct made by Jahid Ahmed, Zoheb Sharif and Maurice Chambers, which was carried out by Katharine Newton KC.
Her report, revealed final December, discovered reference to gamers’ ethnic, racial and spiritual origins was “solely normalised and tolerated behaviour” throughout the dressing-room tradition at Essex between the mid-Nineteen Nineties till round 2013, below the misguided perception that it was acceptable ‘banter’.
Essex introduced in February that they had sanctioned people in reference to Newton’s findings, however didn’t title them.
“Whereas the people aren’t named to align with the anonymised report, Essex CCC takes allegations of racism extraordinarily significantly and the measures are an additional dedication to creating an inclusive and welcoming membership for everybody,” an announcement from Essex on the time mentioned.
“Essex CCC have shared the measures with the England and Wales Cricket Board and reaffirms its pledge to selling equality, range, and inclusion inside cricket to stop such incidents from occurring sooner or later.”
In July final 12 months, Yorkshire have been fined £400,000 – £300,000 suspended for 2 years – and docked 48 Championship factors and 4 within the T20 Blast over their dealing with of allegations of discrimination by former participant Azeem Rafiq, and a failure to deal with the systemic use of racist and discriminatory language over a chronic interval between 2004 and 2021.
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