Using Vaughan as a pundit ‘totally inexcusable’
A BBC diversity group has sent a letter of no confidence to the Director General over the decision to keep using Michael Vaughan.
The BBC Sport BAME Advisory Group and 5 Live Diversity Group called the decision to include Vaughan in its cricket commentary team as “totally inexcusable” and “damaging, embarrassing and unsettling” to many colleagues.
The former England captain was suspended from the Beeb’s Ashes coverage when it first became clear he had been implicated in allegations of racism at Yorkshire.
Former Yorkshire bowler Azeem Rafiq has previously alleged that Vaughan said to a group of players of Asian ethnicity in 2009 that there were “too many of your lot” at the county and that “we need to do something about it”.
The letter admits Vaughan, 47, who categorically denies the claim, is innocent until proven guilty.