The membership was additionally penalised £400,000 ($514,000) by the unbiased Cricket Self-discipline Fee (CDC), with £300,000 suspended for 2 years.
Yorkshire have dropped to the underside of County Championship Division Two on account of the factors punishment.
In September 2020, Pakistan-born bowler Rafiq, 32, went public with prices of racism and bullying referring to his two intervals on the English county.
Yorkshire’s board of administrators issued a press release recognizing the sanctions.
“The CDC and ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) have as we speak acknowledged the huge quantity of labor executed by YCCC to beat the cultural points that existed throughout the membership, which allowed racist and discriminatory behaviour to go unchallenged,” it mentioned.
“We’re accountable for these points, and we accepted 4 amended prices as a part of a continued dedication to make sure we’re in a position to transfer ahead.”
However the Yorkshire board added: “We’re dissatisfied to obtain the purpose deductions which impacts gamers and workers on the membership, who weren’t accountable for the state of affairs.”
ECB chief govt Richard Gould, who was not in submit in the course of the Rafiq scandal, mentioned: “There might be no place for racism in our recreation, and the penalties introduced by the Cricket Self-discipline Fee mark the top of an intensive disciplinary course of.
“Nobody ought to must expertise what Azeem Rafiq went by in cricket, and we as soon as once more thank him for his braveness in talking out.”
Six former Yorkshire gamers have beforehand been penalised by the CDC for utilizing racist remarks.
Individually, the Impartial Fee for Fairness in Cricket (ICEC) launched a stinging report final month that highlighted “widespread” racism, misogyny, and classism in English cricket.
Following the racial incident concerning Rafiq’s remedy, the ICEC was shaped in 2021.
(With inputs from AFP)
