(Reuters) – Essex have been fined 50,000 kilos ($61,835) by an unbiased Cricket Discipline Commission panel after the English county membership pleaded guilty to two charges in relation to a racist comment made at a board assembly in 2017.
Essex chairman John Faragher resigned from his position in November 2021 after the allegation that he used racist language, though he strongly denied the incident.
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB), which introduced the choice on Thursday, stated Essex had additionally been cautioned about additional conduct and issued with a reprimand. It added that 15,000 kilos of the positive was suspended for 2 years.
“The cost was in two components — relating to the comment made on the assembly, and the following failure by Essex CCC to conduct an applicable, or any, subsequent investigation,” an announcement by the ECB stated.
Faragher’s choice to stop Essex got here a day after fellow county facet Yorkshire’s former chief govt Mark Arthur resigned within the fallout from the allegations of institutional racism made by their former participant Azeem Rafiq.
($1 = 0.8086 kilos)
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; enhancing by Clare Fallon)
