The England and Wales Cricket board conducted a “woefully inadequate investigation” into Michael Vaughan that displayed “actual bias” and was “an affront to fairness”, the final day of the Yorkshire racism hearing was told.
In his closing submission the former England captain’s legal counsel, Christopher Stoner KC, questioned why the ECB had initially withheld a statement from Ajmal Shahzad that backed Vaughan’s claims that he had never uttered the phrase “there are too many of you lot” to four Asian players before a Twenty20 game in 2009.
