Michael Vaughan

[grumpy01]

Seems like more are now jumping on the bandwagon.Also players from other counties have said they have been victims in their own set ups.I can’t help but think this took a long time to surface and now pound signs are visible then counties could be on to a financial hiding.

[Mozz71]

Or it just needed a change in societal opinion before they felt that they could speak out and actually be listened to. I haven't seen anybody asking for financial compensation, just for change in standards within cricket.

[ToraToraTora]

kin ridiculous, waited 12 years to moan!

[grumpy01]

Azeem Rafiq offered a six figure sum and no gagging order.

[anneasquith]

Maybe it’s all about the timing, where people feel safer ?

[Mozz71]

Thank you Grumpy, I wasn't aware of that. Still, if Yorkshire believed that nothing had happened, they would have contested the case.

[Stickybottle]

A bandwagon has been jumped on
Maybe these players will stay at home then and play for teams there if it is so bad
Or is it all just about filthy luchre ?

[douglas9401]

Well I'm stumped and can't wait for it to be over.

[Mozz71]

//Maybe these players will stay at home then and play for teams there if it is so bad//

Or maybe other may just be more accepting of different races and cultures in sport.

[ToraToraTora]

feel free to Bale out then doug.

[ToraToraTora]

maybe they need more boundaries in the game.

[Khandro]

Dennis Lillee had a cracking sledge which he used on many batsmen.

“I can see why you are batting so badly, you’ve got some *** on the end of your bat," he would say.

Usually the batsman would then flip over his bat to examine the end, to which Lillee would retort: “Wrong end mate.”

[Stickybottle]

Mozz71
Or maybe other may just be more accepting of different races and cultures in sport.

Like we are not doing so already ?
I reckon it will be a cold hard day in Hell before a touring team bus gets attacked here with gunfire
Seems that only white players are racist
As another poster said why wait 12 years ?

[Khandro]

The fact is; if you feel like a victimised Muslim/ black / brown/ homosexual, or whatever, that is the prism from which you will view the world.

Real men take it on the chin & usually give back as good as they got, that's certainly the case, & always has been, in cricket, - even W.G. Grace was a bit of a sledger

[ToraToraTora]

Is this still bowling along?

[THECORBYLOON]

"Real men take it on the chin & usually give back as good as they got"

If they don't fight back, they're not, "real men" then?

[Khandro]

Correct!

[Mozz71]

Sticky - //Like we are not doing so already ?//

Clearly not, or this matter wouldn't exist.

//I reckon it will be a cold hard day in Hell before a touring team bus gets attacked here with gunfire//

Not sure what this has to do with racism in English County Cricket, but whenever this kind of thing happens, it is immediately condemned and acted upon.

//Seems that only white players are racist//

If a white player had recieved similar treatment and came forward, I'd hope that they get heard the same way.

//As another poster said why wait 12 years ?//

Because it has taken 12 years for the player to feel he had a chance to come forward and be heard. What do you think would've happened had he complained at the time? He probably would have been dismissed by the county and the matter brushed under the carpet.

[ToraToraTora]

Bit of a bouncer from Mozz there!

[Stickybottle]

Just reading about him giving evidence to MPs on the bbc live feed

Amazed that the man remained there for TEN years and was captain too for one season

I wonder what encouraged him to suffer if for that long ?

Truly horrific

[ynnafymmi]

New parliamentary inquiry coming up,by the looks of things.On the news just now,Mr Rafiq is an anti-semite and Jew hater.