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Fraser Watson

Michael Vaughan went on diversity and inclusion course after being named in Azeem Rafiq report

Michael Vaughan has revealed he attended a diversity and inclusion course after being accused of directing racist comments at Yorkshire teammates.

Former England Test captain Vaughan, 47, was in charge at Yorkshire in 2009 when the county made history by selecting four players of Asian descent for the first time - Azeem Rafiq, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Adil Rashid and Ajmal Shahzad.

In what proved an explosive testimony before a DCMS committee last year, during which Rafiq spoke of his experiences of racism in English cricket, he alleged that prior to the game Vaughan had said: “There’s too many of you lot, we need to do something about it."

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