Michael Vaughan has hit back at Azeem Rafiq’s allegations he used racist language towards four Asian team-mates by insisting: “That is not what I’m about.”
The former England captain was under cross examination and reiterated his stance several times that he did not recollect using the phrase: “There are too many of you lot, we need to have a word about that,” about the Asian players in 2009.
Despite admitting he could not remember what he said on the day nearly 14 years ago, Vaughan was adamant that his record in the game over more than 30 years illustrated his strongly held belief that he would never have said anything to a team-mate before a match to put them in a ‘bad state of mind.’
