Racism in cricket: Essex fined £50,000 over remark at board assembly in 2017

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John Faragher denies the allegation he used racist language

Essex have been fined £50,000 by the England and Wales Cricket Board after pleading guilty to two charges relating to a racist comment made at a board meeting in 2017.

The club were charged over the comment itself and their failure to conduct an appropriate, or any, investigation.

Former chairman John Faragher has denied making the comment.

£15,000 of the fine has been suspended for two years and Essex have also been cautioned as to their further conduct.

The case was heard by a panel of the ECB’s cricket discipline commission.

The written reasonsexternal-link stated that Essex accepted a “racist and discriminatory comment” had been used at a board meeting on 7 February 2017.

The panel stated that chief executive John Stephenson, who was appointed in October 2021, had done “all within his power” to take internal action, but had been “thwarted” by “internal division” within the board.

It found that the club had “failed to uphold…

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