The BBC removes Michael Vaughan from the radio station amid allegations of racism

The BBC Former England captain Michael Vaughan has been removed from a radio show next Monday after former player Azeem Rafiq was appointed in a report examining allegations of institutional racism in Yorkshire, the announcer said on Friday.

In a column Telegraph on Thursday, Vaughan, 47, said Rafiq and two other Asian players were on the field together when they told him “you’re a lot, we have to do something.”

Vaughan, who played for Yorkshire between 1993 and 2009, firmly declined to comment.

The BBC He said in a statement: “(We) take any allegation of racism very seriously. The allegation against Michael Vaughan predates the time he worked for the BBC, we were not part of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club investigation and we have no access to the following report be.

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“However, we learned of a single allegation that Michael firmly denies and we have followed the situation closely.”

“We have made an editorial decision that Michael will not appear as a presenter 5 Live‘s Tuffers and Vaughan Show on Monday. “

Roger Hutton President of Yorkshire he resigned on Friday, Rafiq has accused the club’s directors of not accepting and learning of the racism allegations raised. The club said Hanif Malik and Stephen Willis had also left their management and were appointed to replace Lord Kamlesh Patel Hutton.

Rafiq, a player of Pakistani origin and a former England under-19 captain, said last year that he felt like an outsider to Yorkshi and thought about taking his own life.