Michael Vaughan says he "burst out crying" when he learned that the racism charge made against him was dismissed on Friday.
The former England Test cricket captain had been accused of using racist language towards ex teammate Azeem Rafiq and three other Asian players before a Yorkshire match in 2009. Vaughan was accused of telling Rafiq, Adil Rashid, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Ajmal Shahzad: "There's too many of you lot, we need to have a word about that."
However, Vaughan has now been cleared of the charge "on the balance of probabilities" following an eight-day Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) hearing earlier this month. The CDC panel's findings concluded that the ECB's case against Vaughan could not be proven.
