Cack-handed as ever, Yorkshire CCC has been devoured by Azeem Rafiq scandal | Tanya Aldred

Shameful handling of racism allegations is latest example of club’s appalling track record at clearing up its own backyard

What should you know about Yorkshire CCC, the club that has been roundly condemned by multiple MPs, including Sajid Javid? That it is a cricket club with a history of internecine squabbles, that it appears to have an appalling record of clearing up its own backyard, that its man‑management is legendary for its cack-handedness.

That for years black and Asian cricketers were largely ignored and left to play in their own leagues because of the Yorkshire-born policy which the club held on to stubbornly until 1992. That for many young alienated cricketers in the county, there was more love for the Roses club on the other side of the Pennines, the club of Clive Lloyd and Wasim Akram, than there was for the one down the road at Headingley – something that not even the arrival of a young Sachin Tendulkar as the club’s first overseas player could disguise.