Cricket-loving south Asian residents express little surprise but much resigned anger towards a club they see as unwelcoming
The Azeem Rafiq revelations have not come as a great surprise to Yorkshire men and women of south Asian backgrounds, many of whom interviewed by the Guardian believe they reflect the society in which they have lived their lives.
Kamran Abbasi was brought up in Yorkshire, played his cricket there, and felt he experienced racism at every turn. His book Englistan, about the immigrant experience of cricket, explores Yorkshire’s historical struggle with racism.
