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Recordo is an impressive person, and is developing into a very good coach.
Hopefully he's able to develop his coaching career, and eventually get opportunities to coach a county at senior team level.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59391682
One positive from this is that we will not have to endure the comments of Vaughan during the Ashes series.
The situation does raise some safeguarding and welfare issues for Warwickshire, as some members of the playing staff are under 18.
I'd think the club will be needing to get advice from specialist employment law lawyers.
Would any employer have taken on a person who had acted in the way alleged if they knew about the situation before offering him a contract?
This is the specific section of evidence to the employment tribunal about Bresnan, he is mentioned elswhere too
I reccomend you read the full document, it is very disturbing.
Tim Bresnan
- Tim Bresnan made his debut as a 16 year old in the era of Matthew Hoggard and Michael Vaughan.
He was an understudy to Matthew Hoggard. In 2008 / 2009 when I started, Tim was a senior player
and had played for England, so had a lot of influence at YCCC and over younger players. In 2016
when I came back to YCCC, he was a senior player who was declining. I noticed that his relationship
with Jason Gillespie, our coach at that time, was difficult and I thought his behaviour towards Jason
was disrespectful. Jason left the club at the end of 2016 and this is when life at YCCC got worse for
me: Andrew became coach, and Gary and Tim were captains. - Tim was very powerful at YCCC: he had played for Yorkshire all his life, was captain and had played
for England. It also is worth noting that Tim and Andrew Gale are related: Tim is Andrew’s brother
in-law. They always supported each other. In my experience, they were a double act: Tim would tag
along and join in with Andrew’s racist comments and they bounced off each other in terms of the
bullying. As with Andrew, Tim frequently made racist comments and was unduly harsh towards me
compared to white British players, which became so unbearable that I made a formal complaint
against him in 2017 (see further below). - By way of brief overview, these are some examples of the treatment I received from Tim:
(i) Participation in and encouragement of racist comments: Tim would participate with and
encourage Gary in the racist comments and jokes that were directed at me (for example,
comments like “is that your uncle’s shop?”), laughing along at such remarks. Tim was a senior
player who had played for England. I believe that if Tim had pulled Gary up, rather than
encouraging him, it would not have continued.
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(ii) Unduly harsh criticism of my performance and restricting my professional opportunities: In
2016 when I came back to YCCC, Yorkshire were at the bottom of the T20 league and
struggling in one day cricket. However, on my return, Yorkshire made it to the finals and I
was the lead wicket taker of the season. Despite this, in 2017-2018:
(a) During warmups in 2017, Tim would come up to me and comment about my bowling and
talk down to me, making me feel unwanted in the team. When we started playing in
2017, he stopped giving me opportunities to bowl. Given my performance in 2016, this
did not make sense.
(b) During the T20 v Derbyshire on 3 August 2017, I accidentally hit a stump with my leg, a
no ball was given and the free hit went for a 6. It was a freak, one-off accident. At the
end of the game, Tim singled me out in the dressing room, shouting abuse in front of my
teammates, claiming that I had caused us to lose the game. Of course, that wasn’t true:
many factors that day had contributed to the loss, but I was blamed. I went home in tears
(and later made a complaint - see below). By way of comparison, in the game before
(against Lancashire on 15 July 2017), Adam Lyth made an error by running down the pitch
getting caught when we were ahead on Duckworth Lewis and were about to come off
the field at any moment because of rain, which literally cost us the game. In the dressing
room, Tim and Andrew praised and encouraged Adam. There is a clear difference: Adam’s
error had cost us the win, my one-off freak accident had not. In any event, any number
of things during any game contribute to the outcome. And yet, I was singled out and
abused. It was this kind of obvious differential treatment between how white British
players were treated and how I was treated (and the other Pakistani players, like Adil and
Rana) that I noticed was a pattern.
(iii) Belittling comments: Aside from belittling comments about my performance, Tim made
comments that showed that no matter what I did, I was not valued. For example, in the winter
of 2017, I was extremely excited to have been given the opportunity to travel to play in Hong
Kong with a number of high-profile players, and where Brian Lara would be my mentor. A
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teammate commented on this, saying how great it was but Tim responded with disdain and
said in front of everyone, “it’s nothing, anyone can get a gig there (Hong Kong) it’s nothing”. - In light of Tim’s behaviour, I made numerous attempts to raise my concern:
(i) In 2017, prior to the T20 Durham match at Riverside on 4 August 2017, I went to Richard
Pyrah (Assistant Coach) and told him how uncomfortable Tim was making me feel with his
constant digs. Richard dismissed it and simply said “oh, you know what Bres is like, just try to
ignore him”. (Richard, Tim and Andrew were drinking buddies so I didn’t have much hope
that my complaint would come to anything).
(ii) I also took my concerns to my agent, Will Quinn, telling him he had to get me out of YCCC
because of how Tim was treating me, to the point it was causing me to have suicidal thoughts,
so I needed to get out. Will took my disclosure to Martyn Moxon (see my text messages with
Will Quinn: PHB 364; 370-374). Martyn Moxon and Andrew Gale then spoke to me at
Scarborough (6 August 2017) and I told them I felt isolated, that I was being picked on
compared to people in similar situations who were not singled out like I was and I described
the incidents outlined above. Martyn and Andrew admitted that Tim had issues and that
they would be speaking to him about how he had treated me. - After the disclosure to Martyn Moxon, Tim later apologised to me, but it was lip service and didn’t
change anything. In fact, after my disclosure it got even worse for me – I was getting left out of
training and games and I believe my disclosure caused more problems for me and led to further
targeting and bullying. - I note here that I was being treated as a problem and considered to be “difficult” for having an
opinion and raising concerns and complaints, whereas white British players were able to raise
concerns without facing the same consequences. For example, Alex Lees had raised issues with Tim
Bresnan and suffered no consequences as a result of his complaint. I highlight this obvious
difference in treatment in the text messages between Alex and I (PHB 378-382).**
From the Guardian website
"Rafiq said that Yorkshire’s attitude to him changed the moment after he and six or seven other players made complaints accusing Bresnan of bullying in 2017, but Rafiq said he was the only one singled out for being a troublemaker."
Raffiq has answered all the questions very well, he comes across as a decent person.
It's unacceptable that he's been treated so badly by the Yorkshire club, it's players and management.
Raffiq is giving evidence now, live on BBC parliament and website. Tim Bresnan is mentioned, not in a positive way.
Today we have news of both the Yorkshire CEO and the Essex chairman resigning
The Yorkshire chairman has now resigned, as well as other board members.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59172267
As well as sponsors withdrawing from contracts the ECB are now preventing Yorkshire from hosting major matches.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59169535
Also, Jacob Bethel is Barbadian, so technically he has an ethnic minority background.
He was at Carrow Road last weekend based on his latest Instagram post.
Think yourself lucky your being allowed to sit on the step!
One factor in the decision would be the quality of the coaching available. Not going to australia will allow him more time with the coaches at Warwickshire, and with Gary Palmer who he has worked with on a private basis before.
I think the old saying was
"if you snooze, you Lose".
Your failure to obtain a ticket is totally down to your failure to act at the appropriate time!
Yes and tested !
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Paul Farbrace during the coverage yesterday was very complimetary of H Shah who is only 15 and opening in the second team, one point he made was that there needs to be a route for him, and similar players, to the first team when he's about 18, if he's developed as expected.
As the article said, before they signed Davies!