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The day Azeem Rafiq testified
🕑 Added 2021-11-18 06:57:53 +0000 UTCSeason 11, Ep 5: The normal show returns, and it couldn't have been a more important week in which to do it. This is the week when Azeem Rafiq's testimony to a UK parliamentary hearing shook cricket, after years of him reporting racist conduct to players at Yorkshire have been dismissed and covered up. It was an extraordinary moment of truth. The ramifications may be felt more widely than in one country.
We wanted to have this conversation with people who know the story and who know what it's like on that side of the discrimination divide, so we were lucky to be joined this week by Taha Hashim, the Wisden journalist who first interviewed Rafiq about his treatment, as well as broadcaster and former player Nikesh Rughani.
The audio episode is here.
