Michael Vaughan

[grumpy01]

Seems like more are now jumping on the bandwagon.Also players from other counties have said they have been victims in their own set ups.I can’t help but think this took a long time to surface and now pound signs are visible then counties could be on to a financial hiding.

[Mozz71]

Ynna-//On the news just now,Mr Rafiq is an anti-semite and Jew hater.//

I'm not sure if a tweet 11 years ago when he was still a teenager makes him a "Jew hater", but it certainly shows that he wasn't as pure as he believed.

[grumpy01]

Rafik has been found to have exchanged anti- Semitic messages with a player at Warwickshire.

[Khandro]

For sheer hypocrisy this takes some beating:

'Azeem Rafiq has apologised for using anti-Semitic slurs in an exchange of messages with another cricketer.

Rafiq admitted sending messages more than a decade ago in which he joked about a Derbyshire player, Atif Sheikh, being reluctant to spend money on a meal out because “he is a jew”. '

Telegraph today

[DTCwordfan]

all very unsavoury and I would think that most of us have used banter in the past - in a lighthearted way. If he really felt aggrieved why didn't he speak up more about it rather than let if fester.. the "I don't appreciate those sort of remarks, mate - they are sick and cruel, so I am asking you to stop now" - if he is genuinely a leader (and captain) then he should have behaved like one.

[bobbinwales]

Am puzzled as to why thread about rafiq is titled Michael vaughan

[ichkeria]

So was I

This goes a kit further than “banter” plainly

[bobbinwales]

So whose more to blame youngmafbog- those using regular racist language whether as banter or to be cruel or rafiq forgot tackling it head on. Sound like your blaming the victim as much as the bullies??

[bobbinwales]

Forgot is autocorrect for ' For not'