But Azeem Rafiq, the former spinner turned whistleblower whose revelations lie at the heart of the scandal that has engulfed the club in recent years, has already rejected Graves’s attempts to say sorry.

Rafiq believes the acceptance of Graves’s proposals, described by Yorkshire as the only viable offer left to tackle a crippling financial situation that involves debts of almost £15 million to the Graves family trust, shows the game has failed to tackle its discrimination problem.