Yorkshire have confirmed paperwork regarding allegations of racism towards the county cricket membership had been deleted beneath the earlier regime. A Cricket Self-discipline Fee listening to will begin in London subsequent week however no Yorkshire representatives can be current after they admitted to 4 amended prices introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board over the membership’s dealing with of former participant Azeem Rafiq‘s allegations. It has now been confirmed that one of many prices pertains to the deletion or destruction of each digital and paper paperwork however whereas this occurred earlier than present chairman Kamlesh Patel took over, the county wouldn’t say who was accountable.

“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,” a membership assertion stated.

“After a radical impartial 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.

“The membership isn’t ready to conjecture publicly as to why this occurred, who was accountable or the motivation for doing so.”

Subsequent week’s disciplinary listening to will begin on Wednesday however the one charged particular person nonetheless set to look is ex-England captain Michael Vaughan.

Andrew Gale, Matthew Hoggard, Tim Bresnan, Richard Pyrah and John Blain have refused to have interaction with the method.

The Cricket Self-discipline Fee panel will nonetheless hear the costs towards these 5 of their absence.

Gary Ballance, additionally charged, has already admitted utilizing racially discriminatory language and won’t seem.

Pakistan-born Rafiq, 31, first raised allegations of racism and bullying in September 2020, associated to his two spells at Yorkshire.

He instructed a British parliamentary committee in December 2022 that the abuse he and his household had confronted had pressured him to go away the UK.

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