Six former Yorkshire gamers had been sanctioned by the CDC in May after they had been discovered to have used racist slurs.

A basic view of the Headingley cricket floor: The ECB lifted the ban in February on the situation the membership accepted structural modifications to the board. (AP/File)

Yorkshire ought to be fined 500,000 kilos ($636,600) and have factors deducted over their dealing with of racism allegations made by former participant Azeem Rafiq, the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) informed a listening to on Tuesday.

The suggestions had been made to an impartial Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) panel, British media reported, after Yorkshire admitted to 4 amended costs of bringing the sport into disrepute earlier this yr.

Rafiq, a former England Under-19s captain of Pakistani descent, informed a British parliamentary committee in 2021 of “inhuman” therapy at Yorkshire and mentioned he had been a sufferer of institutional racism on the membership.

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