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‘Racism cost me my career’: Discrimination in cricket laid bare as Rafiq speaks to MPs
Azeem Rafiq giving evidence to MPs

by Bella Katz
Sports editor

FORMER Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq laid bare the full extent of his harrowing experience of racism in the sport during an explosive and emotional appearance in front of MPs today.

Rafiq concluded that racial discrimination, and his decision to take a stand against it, had cost him his career, in a game he feels has ingrained problems above and beyond his own story.

His account gave a brutal insight into the sheer scale of institutional racism present not only in English cricket, but in sport and society as a whole.

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