Bans for Ballance, Bresnan, Gale as CDC announces Yorkshire racism sanctions

The bans will only take effect if the individuals seek to return to playing/coaching within the ECB’s jurisdiction. They each have until Friday, June 9 to appeal the CDC decisions.

Gale, the former Yorkshire captain who went on to be head coach between 2016-2021, was fined £6000 and given a four-week suspension from coaching, although he has not been involved with the game since being sacked by the club.

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Ballance, who retired last month having recently switched from representing England to Zimbabwe, received a £3000 fine and six-match playing suspension, having admitted to his offence in advance of the hearing. Bresnan and Hoggard, both former England internationals, were fined £4000, with Bresnan also receiving a four-match ban.

Both Blain, the former Scotland seamer, and Pyrah, who was Gale’s assistant at Yorkshire, were handed £2500 fines. All six were reprimanded and urged to take an “appropriate racism/discrimination education course identified by the ECB”, at their own expense.

The charges were laid in the wake of evidence given by former Yorkshire allrounder Azeem Rafiq, following revelations before a parliamentary select committee in 2021. A seventh player, former England captain Michael Vaughan, was cleared of a similar charge of using racist language.

Yorkshire, who admitted four ECB charges ahead of the hearings in March, also face being penalised, with the CDC panel – made up of chair Tim O’Gorman, Mark Milliken-Smith KC and Dr Seema Patel – set to hear submissions on June 27.

Source: ESPN Crickinfo

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