Azeem Rafiq has criticised Sky Sports for not keeping David 'Bumble' Lloyd as part of their cricket coverage following Rafiq's testimony to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee, where he said the 75-year-old had attempted to "smear" him after he spoke up about his experiences of racism at Yorkshire.
Lloyd reportedly made derogatory remarks about Asian players but spoke to Rafiq shortly after he delivered his testimony to apologise, as well as issuing a public apology to Rafiq and the "Asian cricket community". Sky then issued a statement of their own, saying they would investigate Lloyd's actions and a month after Rafiq spoke to MPs it was announced that Lloyd would be leaving his role as at Sky.
13 months on from his initial testimony, Rafiq has spoken to the DCMS committee again and slammed Sky's decision to let Lloyd go. "I talked about David Lloyd in here last year and I walked out of this room and I received an apology," Rafiq said.
