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Essex are charged by Cricket A regulator who failed to tackle alleged “systemic” racist language and behavior at the club between 2001 and 2010.
The county has been accused of breaching England and Wales Cricket Board Directive 3.3, which refers to “conduct, acts or omissions which may be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which may bring the game of cricket or any cricketer or a group of cricketers of ill repute”.
A statement on Monday read: “Cricket’s regulator alleges that there has been systematic use of racist and/or discriminatory language and/or behavior in Essex, between 2001 and 2010, which Essex failed to meet. An independent panel of the Cricket Disciplinary Committee will consider the matter in due course.”
In their own statement, Essex said they had co-operated fully with cricket’s governing body and would continue to do so, and that they intended to “participate willingly” with the cricket disciplinary committee that will look into the case. The regulator for cricket is an independent compliance body isolated from the ECB, which was established last December.
In 2021, Essex commissioned an independent report into allegations of racist language and behavior made by Jahid Ahmed, Zoheb Sharif and Maurice Chambers; report prepared by Katharine Newton KC. Essex announced in February that it had sanctioned individuals in connection with Newton’s findings, but did not name them.
Newton report, published last Decemberfound that reference to players’ ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds was “completely normalized and tolerated behaviour” in Essex dressing room culture between the mid-1990s until around 2013, under the mistaken belief that it was acceptable “teasing “.
In a statement at the time, Essex said: “Although no individuals have been named to agree to the anonymised report, Essex CCC takes allegations of racism extremely seriously and the measures are a further commitment to creating an inclusive and welcoming club for all.”
“Essex CCC has shared the measures with the ECB and reaffirms its commitment to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion within cricket to prevent similar incidents occurring in the future.”
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In July last year, Yorkshire were fined £400,000 (£300,000 of which they were banned for two years) and docked 48 Championship points for their handling of allegations of discrimination by their former player Azim Rafiq and failure to with the systematic use of racist and discriminatory language over an extended period between 2004 and 2021.
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