The commission makes 44 recommendations to transform cricket’s culture and governance including that, as a first step, the ECB makes an unqualified public apology. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Īfter newsletter promotion What recommendations does the report make? For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. The commission is chaired by Cindy Butts, who was previously the deputy of chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, and comprises four members: Zafar Ansari, a former Surrey and England cricketer Sir Brendan Barber, former general secretary of the Trades Union Congress Dr Michael Collins, a professor of modern British history at University College London and Michelle Moore, who has worked across sport, government and education. It also says that “overt discrimination often goes without serious challenge” and that the game’s complaints system “is not fit for purpose”. The commission cites numerous examples of a racist, misogynistic, homophobic comments at all levels, as well as a “laddish” drinking culture that can alienate women, children and people from ethnically diverse communities.
Does the report also question cricket’s broader culture too? For instance, 87% of people with Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage said they had experienced discrimination in the game in the past five years, with 82% of Indian heritage and 75% of all Black respondents saying the same. The Icec says many of the findings of the survey alone were eye-opening. The commission then supplemented this with written and oral evidence from hundreds of players, counties, women’s regional teams and other organisations linked to cricket.
It started by asking people to describe their experiences in cricket in an online survey in late 2021, which received more than 4,000 replies. At the same time, it does acknowledge that recent initiatives, such as the South Asian Action Plan and the Transforming Women’s and Girls’ Cricket Action Plan have had a positive impact across the game. The report, Holding Up A Mirror to Cricket, says the sport is “elitist and exclusionary”, with those from lower-class backgrounds often facing barriers they cannot overcome as “private school and ‘old boys’ networks’ and cliques permeate the game to the exclusion of many”.
And it is also critical of the way the game discriminates against working class players?Ĭorrect. Across 317 pages of its landmark report, Icec warns that racism is “entrenched in English cricket”, says that women and women’s teams are “frequently demeaned, stereotyped and treated as second-class”, and tells the ECB board that it must “urgently address deep rooted and widespread institutional, structural and interpersonal discrimination across the game”.
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