Last Updated: February 23, 2023, 18:37 IST
Yorkshire County Cricket Club Ground (Source: Yorkshire Twitter)
Yorkshire have pleaded responsible to knowledge deletion amid Pakistan-born cricketer Azeem Rafiq’s racism allegations on the membership
The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has confirmed that paperwork associated to allegations of racism and its responses to these fees had been “irretrievably deleted”, which could be prejudicial to the interest of the game in the country.
Pakistan-born cricketer Azeem Rafiq, who played for Yorkshire for more than 10 years, had claimed that racism at the club had left him on the brink of suicide.
He later deposed before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) in the UK, detailing his ordeal when he was at the club and how institutional racism was rampant there.
Yorkshire removed a majority of its coaching and management staff in the aftermath of the allegations and Lord Kamlesh Patel took over as chairman of the county side and brought about a number of significant changes to counter racism.
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“It has been reported in a number of news outlets that, in relation to the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) inquiry, the Club has admitted a charge of deletion of data and documents,” learn a press release issued by Yorkshire on Thursday following an uproar within the media over the deleted recordsdata.
“After 5 November 2021, it was found that emails and paperwork, each held electronically by the membership and in paper copy, had been irretrievably deleted from each servers and laptops and in any other case destroyed.
“The CDC proceedings are ongoing and, as such, we’re restricted as to what we will say at the moment. After a radical unbiased investigation it was established that the deletion and destruction of paperwork date from a time interval previous to the appointment of Lord Patel and relate to the allegations of racism and the membership’s response to these allegations.”
Yorkshire added that it was not certain why and how the deletion happened and who was responsible for the act.
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“The Club is not prepared to conjecture publicly as to why this occurred, who was responsible or the motivation for doing so. The ICO was of course informed of the position at the time of discovery, and no further action was taken.”
The assertion stated the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had been apprised of the destruction of knowledge, which had stated it may very well be prejudicial to the pursuits of the sport.
“The ECB was additionally knowledgeable of the place, which led to a cost being introduced on the idea that the conduct (deletion/destruction) could also be prejudicial to the pursuits of cricket and/or which can carry the ECB and/or the sport of cricket into disrepute. The Club has admitted this cost, as there was no viable defence in these circumstances.”
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