Hours after former England skipper denied the racial abuse accusations, his former Yorkshire teammate Rana Naved ul Hasan confirmed the claim by Azeem Rafiq, who earlier accused Vaughan of racial abuse.

Rana, the former Pakistani cricketer, in an interview with ESPNcricinfo confirmed that he heard Vaughan making racist comments to a group of Asian players of county team Yorkshire in 2009. Rana, the former Pakistani cricketer, was playing as the club’s overseas player at that time alongside Azeem Rafiq at Trent bridge, confirmed that Vaughan said, “There’s too many of you lot, we need to do something about it.”

Michael Vaughan on Thursday denied the accusations made by Azeem Rafiq and said that he completely and categorically denies that he ever said such words. Vaughan said that it hit him very hard that in his 30 years of cricket career – as a cricketer or commentator – he has never been accused of any such incident.

Vaughan said that he was asked to speak during the inquiry about the incident that happened 11 years ago that nothing was raised at that time and until the night before he was asked to speak to the inquiry.
Vaughan particularly said that the ‘you lot’ comment never happened that if Rafiq believes something was said at that time then it is what he believes.

Meanwhile, Roger Hutton the chairman of England county club Yorkshire, resigned from his post, following the racism row. He apologised to Azeem Rafiq for facing such comments.

“I would like to take this opportunity to apologise unreservedly to Azeem,” Hutton said. “I am sorry that we could not persuade executive members of the board to recognise the gravity of the situation and show care and contrition. I want to be clear that when I was made aware of Azeem Rafiq’s allegations, I immediately reached out to the ECB to ask for their help and intervention to support a robust inquiry. I was saddened when they declined to help as I felt it was a matter of great importance for the game as a whole,” added Yorkshire chairman Roger Hutton.

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