London: Former Essex pacer Jahid Khan has accused racist abuse whereas taking part in for the English county aspect just a few years again, in keeping with a report.
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Jahid is the third participant from Essex to accuse it of racism that has rocked English cricket within the wake of the Yorkshire-Azeem Rafiq episode.
The 35-year-old cricketer follows Zoheb Sharif and Maurice Chambers who’ve additionally accused the membership of racial discrimination.
Jahid, who represented Essex in seven first-class matches between 2005 and 2009, described the membership as “a white man’s world the place brown individuals had been outsiders” after allegedly being requested by a teammate if he was “going to bomb” the membership.
“It was a white man’s world the place brown individuals had been outsiders. I wished to vary my voice. I attempted to deepen it. I actually wished to slot in,” Jahid was quoted as saying by The Cricketer.
“I felt like an outsider on a regular basis I used to be at Chelmsford. I used to be all the time fearing what they might.nete up with and it made it extremely laborious to focus on my cricket,” he added.
In the meantime, it has additionally.nete to mild {that a} sponsor has pulled out of its affiliation with the membership.
“Seetec is listed as one among eight Platinum Membership Companions on the Essex web site and confirmed to inews.co.uk that it was suspending its ties with the membership because of the historic and deeply damaging allegations,” inews.co.uk stated in a report.
“Now we have suspended our ties with Essex County Cricket Membership with instant impact,” a.netpany spokesman advised the web site.
“By way of the companies we ship, our worker homeowners work with various.netmunities to assist individuals realise their life ambitions. That is a part of our wider.netmitment to social inclusion as it is very important us that the.netmunities we serve have equal entry to alternative. Any type of racism shouldn’t be tolerated.”
Earlier, John Faragher resigned as Essex chairman on November 11 following a declare he used racist language at a board assembly in 2017, which he strongly denied.