Well Balance was highly unlikely to have ever been selected by England again anyway but at least he has come forward and stated he made a mistake, I have no doubt that a lot of this was meant in jest and that Rafik no doubt also used terms and language that would be deemed inappropriate. However there in my opinion are varying forms of “not appropriate” and the P word is one that I struggle to understand being used in jest.
The bigger issue is how on earth Yorkshire CCC can just brush all this off and take basically no responsibility what’s so ever, the measures instigated by the ECB basically mean the whole board and those that run the club needs to go and so they all should, Yorkshire can’t survive without the money from international matches and will very quickly become like all other non test match counties and to make the matter worse which brand is going to be associated with them if the board remain in place.
Also expect Mr Ballance to be using non branded kit if he continues to play professional cricket as I would not want anyone associated with this kind of back story using my brand kit, can’t imagine Kippax wanting this either.