
Joe Root: Yorkshire racism scandal has 'fractured our game and torn lives apart'
"We need to educate, unify and reset"
"We need to educate, unify and reset"
Rana backed up claims made by Azeem Rafiq
"I would like to take this opportunity to apologise unreservedly to Azeem"
Ballance repeatedly emphasised how close he was to Rafiq during their time together at Yorkshire
One Yorkshire sponsor has tweeted: “There is never a place or an excuse for racism. We have no further activity…
Rafiq today received a "heavily redacted" copy of Yorkshire's investigation into racism at the club
The statement pointed to Rafiq's excellent record in white-ball cricket prior to his 2018 release
"This is clearly unacceptable and an abuse of process"
Rafiq first made his allegations in August 2020 in an interview with Wisden.com
"This only happens in Yorkshire. I played several years for Sussex and they were tremendous"
The latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out January 19:
The most famous sports book in the world, the Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
The 158th edition of the most famous sports book in the world – published every year since 1864 – contains some of the world’s finest sports writing, and reflects on an unprecedented year dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Writers include Lawrence Booth, Sir Garfield Sobers, Ebony Rainford-Brent, Gideon Haigh, Andy Zaltzman, Tom Holland, Duncan Hamilton, Robert Winder, Matthew Engel, Scyld Berry, Derek Pringle, Jack Leach and James Anderson. As usual, Wisden includes the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the famous obituaries. And, as ever, there are reports and scorecards for every Test, together with forthright opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records.
Cricket’s past is steeped in a tradition of great writing and Wisden is making sure its future will be too. The Nightwatchman is a quarterly collection of essays and long-form articles which debuted in March 2013 and is available in book and e-book formats.
Every issue features an array of authors from around the world, writing beautifully and at length about the game and its myriad offshoots.