“Culture of Drinking” on the County team is partly responsible for Asian players and blacks who do not get enough opportunities in the UK Cricket, former Indian International Tino Best has said.
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Best, who played with Rafiq in Yorkshire, told BBC Sport: “The culture around the cricket is a drink.
That’s a big problem.
People shouldn’t be pressed to go to Clubhouse and drink eight or nine pints to be part of the team.” “If you are not part of a drinking culture, if you are not part of a boy club, you will not get a chance after cricket,” he said.
“It is something that inhibits colored skin and ethnic Asia.” Best, 40, said he remembered how players with Asian heritage such as Rafiq, Fair Rashid and Ajmal Shahzad were treated in Yorkshire in 2010 and how they feared retaliation if they went public with their complaints.
“I also become colored skin, I will always be with them too.” He said they would complain every day about what they were through.
“I’ll be like ‘wow’,” he said.
“It was only surprising to hear what the people said in 2010.
And there was no platform for them to truly open, because people might lose a contract, maybe kicked out of the club.”