Azeem Rafiq: from England hopeful to revealing racism in cricket | Tanya Aldred

Rafiq’s remarkable career is filled with tremendous peaks and bitter lows as a climax nears in his fight with Yorkshire CCC

Last week a new fish and chip shop opened in Barnsley. There were long queues to snaffle the first 1,000 portions, sold at the bargain 1972 price of 45p, but the most extraordinary thing about it was the owner, Azeem Rafiq: English cricket’s great disruptor.

The story of the 30-year-old Rafiq has dominated the front and back pages this month after the touchpaper finally caught in his long-running battle for justice over the racism he experienced while at Yorkshire CCC. It has been a story Shakespearean in its tragedy, and spiralling in its repercussions, of how a superb young cricketer, Yorkshire’s first captain from an Asian background and a beacon of inclusivity, became lost and alienated at a club where, he has claimed, casual racism was allowed to float and fester.

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