Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan has been cleared of using racist language to ex-Yorkshire team-mate Azeem Rafiq. A Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) announced the findings "on the balance of probabilities" today.
Vaughan was accused of saying "there's too many of you lot, we need to have a word about that" to a group of Asian players before a match in 2009. The CDC panel concluded that the case against the 48-year-old was not proved after a three-week hearing.
Vaughan responded to the news by saying that there are "no winners in this process". Five others accused were found by the panel to have used racist and/or discriminatory language - former Test stars Matthew Hoggard and Tim Bresnan, ex-Yorkshire coaches Andrew Gale and Richard Pyrah and former Scotland international John Blain.
