I am a cricket playing forriner, once moderately talented, who was denied entry to the Yorkshire CCC youth system because at the time they didn't even employ players born outside Yorkshire.
The report made me wretch, it's that sickening.
For those who don't know the details, Azeem Shafiq is someone who complained multiple times about racism, about being referred to as a "Paki" to his face, who was asked repeatedly if random bearded men were his relatives, who was asked if his family owned corner shops that team mates happened to see from the bus, was found by an independent investigation panel of lawyers to have been subjected to racist actions and discrimination. The Yorkshire County Cricket Club board, when presented with these findings, somehow came to a different conclusion; namely, that it was "banter," and found no further action necessary. They had already terminated his employment for cricketing reasons.
They further found that because he had referred to a Zimbabwean colleague as "Zimbo" (which would be roughly equivalent to calling a New Zealander a Kiwi, or an Australian as an Aussie - not perjorative, and I say that as the son of a Zambian national) then he would himself have been subject to disciplinary action if he still been employed.
I don't often get into race politics (if you read my posts on the apartheid thread last week you'd know why) but it is now obvious that Yorkshire CCC is institutionally racist no matter how you look at it. I am glad that Arla Foods (which operates various dairies in Yorkshire, and is the company behind Yorkshire's own Cravendale to name but one brand; Anchor is their other obvious one) have walked away. I hope everyone else who puts money towards this shower does the same.