“Complacency on racial equality is not acceptable. We must open our doors to everyone.” The contrite, heartfelt, revolutionary words there of the England and Wales Cricket Board in the wake of a devastating report into the state of prejudice and inequality in cricket.
Yes, 1999 really was a hell of a year. Google had just been invented. Yugoslavia existed. Tim Lamb, head of the ECB, was free to be appalled, kind of in the background, by the inaugural Big Report into Cricket Racism, commissioned by the ECB in its founding year and followed by almost total inaction in the quarter of a century between that report and the latest one.
