Cricket in crisis: How Azeem Rafiq's testimony on racist abuse shines light on the sport's deep-rooted problems
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"From early on there was a lot of, 'You lot sit over there near the toilets,' the word 'P***' was used constantly, no one ever stamped it out," said former cricketer Azeem Rafiq as he laid bare this week his experience of racial abuse at one of England's top clubs.
November 16, 2021 may come to be remembered as cricket's day of reckoning; in the aftermath of Rafiq's testimony, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) -- the sport's regulator in those two countries -- spoke of taking the "necessary action" and the need to "learn lessons as a game."
The ECB has quite a job on its hands.
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