Azeem Rafiq attended day three of the third and final Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley as a guest of Yorkshire, returning to the ground for the first time since speaking out about the racist abuse he suffered at the club.
Rafiq went public with his experiences of racism at Yorkshire in 2020, revealing it drove him to the brink of suicide. Now, almost two years after first speaking out, Rafiq accepted an invitation from Yorkshire to visit Headingley.
Following his harrowing testimony to a DCMS select committee last year, Yorkshire were suspended from hosting international matches. However, after new chair Lord Patel spearheaded widespread change at the county, the ECB lifted their suspension.
