ECB reprimands Danielle Wyatt, Azeem Rafiq amongst 5 cricketers for historic social media posts

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), on Monday, October 10, reprimanded 5 cricketers for historic posts on social media platforms. The posts have been discovered to be racist by the ECB.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Oct 10, 2022 21:05 IST

ECB reprimands Wyatt, Rafiq amongst 5 cricketers for historic social media posts. Courtesy: Reuters

By India Today Web Desk: England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), on Monday, October 10, reprimanded 5 cricketers, Jack Brooks, Andrew Gale, Evelyn Jones, Azeem Rafiq and Danielle Wyatt for historic posts on social media platforms.

The cricketers, nevertheless, will face no additional motion after Chris Tickle, the Cricket Discipline Commission adjudicator, reprimanded them.

The 5 cricketers admitted breaching ECB directive 3.3 which mentions, “no such person may conduct themself in a manner or do any act or omission which may be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which may bring the game of cricket or any cricketer or group of cricketers into disrepute”.

Wyatt, who’s an England veteran in girls’s cricket, and Jones, who has performed within the Women’s Hundred and Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL), additionally admitted breaching ECB Directive 3.4, which states “each participant is bound by and must comply with the ECB Anti-Discrimination Code”.

Wyatt and Jones confronted the costs for his or her ‘blackface’ put up on Instagram approach again in 2013. The posts dropped by all 5 cricketers have been discovered to be racist by the ECB.

Yorkshire coach Gale, additionally a former left-handed batter, and Rafiq, who was within the limelight surrounding ‘institutional racism’ in the identical county workforce, have been reprimanded for his or her anti-Semitic posts on Twitter and Facebook respectively.

Brooks, who performs for Somerset as an all-rounder, was reprimanded for a put up on Twitter that was directed at former cricketer Stewart Laudat and present English quick bowler Tymal Mills. The tweets included racist language.

Last yr, the ECB additionally suspended bowling all-rounder Ollie Robinson after his outdated tweets have been discovered to be Islamophobic and sexist. However, Robinson went on to make his comeback for the Three Lions.