Essex plead guilty to bringing game into disrepute over alleged racist comment made by ex-chairman

Essex have pleaded guilty to two charges of bringing the game into disrepute over an alleged racist comment made by their former chairman. The club have accepted…

Former Essex chairman claims he was forced to resign ‘under duress’ after racist language allegation

John Faragher, the former Essex chairman, who resigned last November following an allegation that he used racist language at a board meeting in 2017, has claimed that…

ECB charge Essex with bringing game into disrepute for alleged racist comment made at board meeting

Essex County Cricket Club face the possibility of a points deduction or even suspension from county competitions after being charged with bringing the game into disrepute by…

BT Sport ‘failing in their duty’ by not quizzing Sir Alastair Cook over racism scandal, says MP

BT Sport has been accused of “failing in their duty” to quiz Sir Alastair Cook during the first Ashes Test about the racism scandal to engulf England…

Essex ‘a white man’s world where brown people were outsiders’, claims former player Jahid Ahmed

Another former Essex player of Asian heritage has come forward to allege racist abuse, claiming a team-mate asked him if he was “going to bomb the club”….