John Faragher denies incident took place at meetingEssex CEO: ‘We have a zero-tolerance policy towards racism’The chairman of Essex County
Cricket Club has resigned following an allegation that he used racist language at a board meeting in 2017. John Faragher, who strongly denies the incident took place, stepped down on Thursday evening, and Essex will now review why the matter was not fully and independently investigated at the time.
Essex’s new chief executive, John Stephenson, who took over the day-to-day running of the club only in October, said he had first found out about the allegation last week.