Does cricket have an anti-Semitism problem?
From our UK edition
The row over racism at Yorkshire County Cricket Club has also shone a spotlight on anti-Semitism in the cricketing world. Andrew Gale, the Yorkshire head coach and former captain, has been suspended for having sent a tweet which said: 'button it, yid'. Azeem Rafiq, the former Yorkshire spin-bowler who blew the whistle on racism, was found to have sent a Facebook message in which he labelled a fellow cricketer as a 'Jew' for being reluctant to spend money at a team dinner, and went on to assert: 'Only Jews do (that) sort of shit ha'. The comedian Mike Yarwood once quipped: 'I was doing the smallest books in the world. Famous Jewish cricketers, Australian etiquette, that kind of thing.
