Former Hampshire cricketer John Holder has hit out at Middlesex CCC and chairman Mike O’Farrell, claiming the county cricket team ‘do not want black people’ at the club.
Holder, the only non-white Test umpire in British cricket history, labelled O’Farrell’s testimony to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee yesterday as ‘utter horse muck’.
The chairman apologised after claiming the lack of diversity in cricket was due to such groups having other interests, like football and rugby. His comments ignited an immediate backlash as players, fans and politicians blasted the ‘lazy stereotype’.
