Azeem Rafiq is today accused of using abusive, anti-Semitic and homophobic language during his playing career as well as ‘fat-shaming’ children in a training session.

In a series of explosive claims made by former team-mates and officials to Sportsmail, we can reveal Rafiq is alleged to have:

• Repeatedly called a former Yorkshire team-mate a ‘Jew’ while playing in the county’s second XI between 2007 and 2012.

• Bullied youngsters at Barnsley Cricket Club when running a 2015 coaching session by making some children take their tops off and calling them ‘fat b*****s’.
• Abused an opposition batter by calling him a ‘f****t’ in a Yorkshire Premier League game in 2009 and failed to apologise when confronted about the incident on social media last year.

Rafiq has become a powerful anti-racism campaigner since an independent report commissioned by Yorkshire County Cricket Club found he had suffered racial harassment and bullying at Headingley. Now he is facing claims regarding alleged racist behaviour of his own. Rafiq strongly denies the claims.

The 31-year-old was this week formally reprimanded by the ECB for making an anti-Semitic slur on social media that emerged last November in the wake of his accusations of institutional racism against Yorkshire.

Rafiq apologised following the publication of Facebook messages dating from 2011 last year, in which he joked that former Derbyshire player Atif Sheikh was reluctant to spend money on a meal out because ‘he is a Jew’.

In his evidence...

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