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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Harry Latham-Coyle

Middlesex chairman criticised for comments on Black and Asian interest in cricket

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The chairman of Middlesex County Cricket Club has been criticised for comments made about Black and Asian interest in the sport.

Appearing in front of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee alongside several other county chairmen, Mike O’Farrell claimed that prospective South Asian players preferred to pursue education, and that football and rugby were “more attractive” to people from the “Afro-Caribbean community”.

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