- John Faragher denies incident took place at meeting
- Essex CCC: ‘We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind’
The chairman of Essex County Cricket Club has resigned following an allegation that he used racist language at a board meeting four years ago. John Faragher, who strongly denies the incident took place, stepped down after a meeting of the Essex board on Thursday evening.
Faragher’s departure comes as cricket starts to come to terms with the wider fallout from the allegations of racism – and a failure to investigate them properly – made during the long-running case of Azeem Rafiq at Yorkshire. Mark Arthur, the Yorkshire chief executive, became the latest person to leave Headingley in the wake of the scandal earlier this week.
