Former England spinner Monty Panesar has said children from minority ethnic backgrounds do not "feel a career as a professional cricketer is open to them", amid the sport's ongoing racism scandal.
Middlesex chief Mike O'Farrell has been criticised for comments he made at a DCMS select committee hearing on Tuesday, where he claimed football and rugby is "much more attractive to the Afro-Caribbean community" and the "south Asian community prefer to go into other educational fields, and then cricket becomes secondary".
O'Farrell has since apologised for "the misunderstanding that my comments made at this morning’s DCMS Select Committee hearing have evidently caused".
