Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (CCC) has issued an “unreserved apology to anyone who has ever been excluded from cricket or made to feel like they don’t belong” in the wake of a damning report that found “widespread” racism, sexism, elitism and classism in the sport.
Gloucestershire CCC chair David Jones has branded the results of a two-year inquiry as 'distressing'. He has now called for drastic change.
The Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket’s (ICEC’s) long-awaited findings were published on Tuesday (June 27). As reported this week, Bristol’s Commission on Racial Equality (CoRE) launched its own investigation into the region’s grassroots game and sent its shocking conclusions to the ICEC as part of its call for evidence. CoRE began its probe in November 2021 after former Yorkshire spin bowler Azeem Rafiq told a House of Commons select committee that English cricket was “institutionally racist”.
