Former England captain Michael Vaughan has been cleared "on the balance of probabilities" of making a racist comment towards four Asian teammates in 2009.
Vaughan was accused of telling Azeem Rafiq, Adil Rashid, Ajmal Shahzad and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan: "There are too many of you lot, we need to have a word about that." The incident was alleged to have occurred in 2009 while he was playing for Yorkshire.
However, Vaughan has now been cleared of the charge by the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) following a hearing held earlier this month. And he confirmed the news in a statement on social media where he branded the proceedings "inappropriate, inadequate and a backwards step".
