Cricketer Azeem Rafiq accused of sending lewd texts to minor lady

Azeem Rafiq, who’s on the middle of the racism controversy in Yorkshire cricket, has been accused of sending ‘creepy’ textual content messages to a lady when she was 16 years outdated, the Yorkshire Post reported. The girl in query, one Gayathri Ajith, has stated that the cricketer of Pakistani origin despatched inappropriate texts to her.
Gayathri Ajith was 16 years outdated when she met Azeem Rafiq however informed him she was 17 with a purpose to seem a “bit older”. She stated that she agreed to have coke vodka with him on the airplane however refused an invitation to have dinner with him in Dubai.
Azeem Rafiq despatched her texts that learn “u know what I wanted to do on the plane?” and “I want to grab you push u up against wall and kiss you”. Ajith responded saying, “do you realise that I’m only 17?” To that, the cricketer responded, “Does tht mean it not allowed to want to kiss me”. Another textual content stated, “Wud u have let me kiss u?”.
Ajith, creeped out, requested him, “How do I know that you’re no some absolute pervert”. She informed the Yorkshire Post, “I was just kind of shocked by the crudity of those messages. They were just so vulgar.” She additionally stated that a few of the allegations of racism he labeled don’t sit proper along with her.
She stated, “If he was being forced to drink by his teammates, then surely that wouldn’t then mean he would be drinking alone on a flight and encouraging a 17-year-old girl to be drinking with him.” “His behaviour towards me was a direct contradiction really of what he said in his testimony,” she added.
Rafiq was accused of “contributing to the problem of the vulgar attitudes towards women”. The allegations by Ajith comes proper after the cricketer needed to apologise for making anti-Semitic feedback on social media prior to now.
The cricketer of Pakistani origin had earlier accused Yorkshire Cricket Club of racism. “I know how close I was to committing suicide during my time at Yorkshire. I was living my family’s dream as a professional cricketer, but inside I was dying. I was dreading going to work. I was in pain every day,” he had stated in an interview final 12 months.
Rafiq claimed that he regretted doing un-Islamic issues with a purpose to slot in. “But as soon as I stopped trying to fit in, I was an outsider. There were no coaches on the staff from a similar background who understood what it was like,” he narrated.