Essex accused of failing to respond to alleged 'systemic' racist language and conduct – Firstpost

England's Essex County has been charged by the country's cricket regulator for failing to respond to alleged “systemic” racist comments and behavior over a decade.

“The cricket regulator alleges that there was a systemic use of racist and/or discriminatory language and/or behavior in Essex, during the period between 2001 and 2010, to which Essex did not has failed to remedy,” the cricket regulator said in a statement. Monday.

Essex said in response that he had fully co-operated with the investigation and intended to “voluntarily participate” in the cricket disciplinary committee which will hear the matter.

In 2021, allegations of racist remarks and conduct made by Jahid Ahmed, Zoheb Sharif and Maurice Chambers were investigated by King's Advisor Katherine Newton, who delivered her commissioned report to Essex.

Its report, published last December, found that referencing players' ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds was “entirely normalized and tolerated behavior” in locker room culture from the mid-1990s until around 2013, under the belief erroneous that it was an acceptable joke. '

Essex announced in February that it had sanctioned individuals based on Newton's findings, but without naming them.

Last July, Yorkshire were fined and given points for their handling of former player Azeem Rafiq's allegations of discrimination and for failing to address the systemic use of racist language and discriminatory from 2004 to 2021.