CRICKET Scotland’s chief executive has denied “casual racism” claims relating to his previous comments on barriers facing ethnic minorities in accessing the sport.
In evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Gordon Arthur, who was joined by new chair Anjan Luthra, said his comments were not intended to be a “generalisation”.
Arthur, in a previous evidence session in October, said young people were leaving the sport because of pressures from family to succeed in education – a comment Labour MSP Paul O’Kane said could be “perceived as quite stereotypical” of many Asian communities.
