{"id":162067,"date":"2021-11-18T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=162067"},"modified":"2021-11-19T01:01:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T01:01:52","slug":"former-england-cricketer-shares-horrific-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=162067","title":{"rendered":"Former England cricketer shares horrific letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former England cricketer<\/a> Ebony Rainford-Brent was told to "leave our country" in a vitriolic, hand-written racist letter.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old, who became the first Black woman to play for England's cricket team<\/a> in 2001, shared a picture of the letter on Twitter this week, at a time when the sport's issues with racism have been laid bare.<\/p>\n

Rainford-Brent captioned her tweet: "Interesting… Born in south London but apparently I was found naked in Africa as a primitive. Had some letters in my time but this one up there!"<\/p>\n

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The letter contained a number of racist and sexist slurs\u200b and referred multiple times to "White culture."<\/p>\n

It comes after former cricket player Azeem Rafiq \u200bgave testimony describing a pattern of racist and discriminatory behavior within English cricket\u200b, speaking to UK lawmakers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the hearing, Rafiq shared his experience of \u200bbeing bullied at Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) and broke down in tears on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n

\u200bIn a summary of a report produced by an independent panel for the YCCC, the panel concluded that "there is no question" that Rafiq "was the victim of racial harassment."<\/p>\n

Rainford-Brent represented her country 29 times until 2010 before moving into sports broadcasting. In 2020, she partnered with cricket legend Michael Holding to produce a powerful short film to address the issue of racism in both cricket and society following the police murder of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

"I grew up in a very multicultural, diverse London with all sorts of colours — Black, White, Asian," she said in the Sky Sports video.<\/p>\n

"Everyone was a melting pot, and I noticed that as soon as I walked into the world of cricket, the comments started.<\/p>\n

"I had comments about where I grew up, and the fact that I had a long name, maybe my mum didn't know who my dad was; about my hair, body parts, especially the derriere shall we say; about the food that I ate and that it stank.<\/p>\n

"I question myself why I stayed so long. I love the game, it has so much more to offer, but it can be really difficult dealing with that day in and day out."<\/p>\n

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