The board of Cricket Scotland has resigned forward of the publication of an unbiased report into racism.
The report will come out on Monday, although on Saturday Cricket Scotland mentioned it was “truly sorry” to anybody who was abused whereas enjoying the game.
The evaluate has been carried out after Scotland’s all-time main wicket-taker Majid Haq instructed Sky Sports News that Cricket Scotland was “institutionally racist”, whereas former teammate Qasim Sheikh mentioned he had additionally suffered racist abuse.
Aamer Anwar, the lawyer representing the 2 gamers, instructed Sky the report might show “devastating” for Cricket Scotland.
In an announcement reacting to Sunday’s resignations, a spokesperson for Cricket Scotland mentioned: “Cricket Scotland will work in partnership with sportscotland with immediate effect to ensure appropriate governance, leadership and support is in place for the organisation and the sport in the days ahead, and these arrangements will be reviewed after the publication of the report into racism in cricket in Scotland and updates given accordingly.”
The resignation letter from the outgoing board referred to the evaluate being “truly transformative, not just for Cricket Scotland but the sport of cricket” and mentioned it will “provide a watershed moment for Scottish sport and society in general”.
The outgoing board repeated its apology, however mentioned that regardless of taking steps to enhance the governance of Cricket Scotland, it couldn’t meet the timescales of actions the report will suggest.
The assertion added: “While the board has not been given sight of the review report, it is now aware of the proposed timescales and of certain mandated actions proposed within the report that it believes make the delivery of these two programmes unachievable within the timetable proposed and the current governance framework.
“Consequently, we believe we must now step aside to enable the required progress to be made in the coming months.”
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk