ECB discipline!!

Too busy organising their new 100 competition I’m afraid. Yet it should have been done and in the future it probably will be now they’ve been caught out. For many years now many employers have always done a social media search to try and ensure that they uncover any misdemeanours of future employees at appointment time before it becomes embarrassing, the ECB didn’t but I bet they will now.

I have less than no sympathy for them. The ECB have all these social media experts and this happens! You really couldn’t make it up.
As for Robinson, what you’ve said about him irish, I’ve heard said about other England cricketers. Cricketers now are, and have been for some time, cushioned and protected. It’s almost as if they don’t think for themselves because they don’t need to, it’s all done for them. And if they don’t have the intelligence to realise how fortunate they are or the upbringing to know how to behave properly they will say things that are wrong. I may be completely out of fashion but youngsters at 18 should know what not to say to others both in person and on social media outlets. Basically he’s been caught out and left very embarrassed. His meeting in the Sussex dressing room with Jofra Archer will be interesting.
As for the government getting involved, that they don’t see too much wrong with it tells you all you need to know about their values. The ECB might be pretty awful but get those clowns in government giving their views then you know all hope has gone.

Middlesex chairman Mike O'Farrell has apologised for comments on black and South Asian interest in cricket that were called "painful" and "outdated" by ex-England player Ebony Rainford-Brent.

O'Farrell said football and rugby become "much more attractive to the Afro-Caribbean community" and cricket was sometimes "secondary" to education for young South Asian players.

He was speaking at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee hearing into how cricket plans to tackle racism in the sport.

Rainford-Brent said such "outdated views" were "exactly" why cricket was under pressure to tackle issues of diversity and inclusion following former Yorkshire player Azeem Rafiq's account of racism in the sport.

O'Farrell subsequently offered his "wholehearted apologies" for the "misunderstanding" his comments at the hearing had caused.

"I wholly accept that this misunderstanding is entirely down to my own lack of clarity and context in the answers I provided, and I am devastated that my comments have led to the conclusions some have made," he said.

"For the purposes of clarification, I was aiming to make the point that as a game, cricket has failed a generation of young cricketers, in systematically failing to provide them with the same opportunities that other sports and sectors so successfully provide."

A parliamentary report earlier this month recommended the government should limit public funding for cricket unless there was "continuous, demonstrable progress" on eradicating "deep-seated racism".

Rafiq, who in November told the DCMS select committee that English cricket was "institutionally racist", said O'Farrell's comments "confirmed what an endemic problem the game has".

When asked about Middlesex's record on diversity and inclusion, O'Farrell said that 57% of their players under the age of 17 came from "culturally diverse backgrounds".

He said that was "more difficult" to maintain at higher levels and particularly in the academy, for "several reasons".

Going into those reasons, O'Farrell claimed that "the football and rugby worlds become much more attractive to the Afro-Caribbean community" at that age.