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Breaking boundaries - the inside story of cricket's ICEC report
Culture
By Alan White
Breaking boundaries - the inside story of cricket's ICEC report
A year ago, the Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket published a bombshell report that exposed many of the game’s ills. Alan White asks why the sport decided to rip the shroud away from itself, and finds out what comes next
Women in Westminster: In Conversation With Cindy Butts Partner content
Parliament
By Total Politics Impact
Women in Westminster: In Conversation With Cindy Butts
In 2023, the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) published its landmark report on the sexism, racism, and classism that have affected cricket for decades. As part of our Women in Westminster series, PoliticsHome sat down with Commission Chair, Cindy Butts, to learn more about why equity is vital in both sport and society
Cricket has an opportunity to level the playing field
Culture
By Cindy Butts
Cricket has an opportunity to level the playing field
Many of you will have seen the extensive coverage of the Report ‘Holding Up A Mirror to Cricket’ published on 27 June by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket, which I chaired.
Bats And Ballots - The History Of Parliamentary Cricket
History
By Patrick Kidd
Bats And Ballots - The History Of Parliamentary Cricket
The Lords and Commons cricket team has been a parliamentary fixture since the Victorian era. Patrick Kidd traces some of its hilarious history.
Sticky Westminster wicket: A century of cricket players in Parliament
Political parties
By Patrick Kidd
Sticky Westminster wicket: A century of cricket players in Parliament
In February 1916, two weeks after Britain had introduced conscription and a week before the start of the slaughter at Verdun, the government sent in a raw recruit to open the batting in the debate on the King’s Speech.
Government Warns It Will Step In If English Cricket Fails To Tackle Racism
Social affairs
Government Warns It Will Step In If English Cricket Fails To Tackle Racism
Exclusive: The government is warning English cricket’s governing body that unless it leads by example in rooting out racism within the sport, it will be forced to step in and take over.
Azeem Rafiq Tells MPs His Treatment At Yorkshire Was “Inhuman” And Racism Is Institutional In Cricket
Social affairs
Azeem Rafiq Tells MPs His Treatment At Yorkshire Was “Inhuman” And Racism Is Institutional In Cricket
The former cricketer Azeem Rafiq has told MPs his treatment by his club Yorkshire was “inhuman” during a parliamentary committee hearing on racism in the sport.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s racism scandal is just the start of the sport’s reckoning
Culture
By Jarrod Kimber
Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s racism scandal is just the start of the sport’s reckoning
On 1 November this year, a discussion broke out across the airwaves and social media: could the word “P***” ever be construed as “banter”? Obviously, most people agree that no, it could not.
Boris Johnson in cricket u-turn as he says sport can resume next weekend after ‘third umpire was invoked’
Coronavirus
Boris Johnson in cricket u-turn as he says sport can resume next weekend after ‘third umpire was invoked’
Boris Johnson has reversed his decision on cricket saying people can start playing the sport again from next weekend.