Cricket Scotland has said it "regrets the hurt" endured by a former top cricketer who blew the whistle on racism in the sport.
The original complaint by Majid Haq led to the governance of Cricket Scotland being branded institutionally racist in a review which was published in 2022.
Haq is now an umpire in the sport and last year launched a civil legal claim against the sport's governing body for alleged victimisation after he was removed from umpiring at a Scotland international fixture.
This legal claim has now been dropped and both Haq and Cricket Scotland have issued statements about the situation.
Haq and former Scotland teammate Qasim Sheikh spoke out about their experiences of racism in the game in 2022.
The subsequent review found evidence of institutional racism in Scottish cricket and highlighted 448 examples.
Cricket Scotland accepted the hundreds of recommendations made in this review in full.
The sport's governing body then hired two law firms and a race equality charity to independently investigate the racism allegations made by former players and others in the game.
BBC Scotland last year revealed that one of these investigations concluded that Haq had been victimised for speaking out and that his later career as umpire was "substantially undermined" as a result of him going public with his concerns.
A club official was convicted in 2023 for racially abusing Haq when he was umpiring a game.
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