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The Impact of Elitism on Cricket in England

There was a study that came out by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket, which talked about systemic discrimination in English game. There has been a proof that English crickets in book prejudice against women, people of colour and people from poor backgrounds. It's controversial because obviously the overreaction is a goodness. But it seems to be so in England, and I don't want to dive into the racism. If you watched the second test at Lords, you would have seen the members of the Lords club made the news for acting. They were accused of racism for incidents that happened. And it subsequently emerged that there were a number of players in England of Indian or Pakistani descent who were playing there

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