Jobs for the boys attitude highights English cricket's failings on race | Barney Ronay


Those who went on rebel tours to South Africa were welcomed back into the fold in stark contrast to the treatment of their West Indies counterparts who took the Blood Rand

Does English cricket have a problem with race? This has become an urgent question in the past week, driven not by some hard-won moment of forensic self-analysis but by comments on a podcast from the former England opener Michael Carberry.

It’s also a terrible question. Here’s a better one: is there any part of English cricket’s power structures that doesn’t have a problem with race?

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