Richard Pyrah, who was discovered responsible of creating racist feedback about an Asian girl, has returned to Yorkshire as the pinnacle coach of the county’s senior ladies’s staff.
Pyrah was handed a two-week teaching ban and a £2,500 high-quality by the Cricket self-discipline fee in Could final yr after it was discovered he had breached ECB directive 3.3, which governs acts or omissions which can be prejudicial to the pursuits of cricket or carry the sport into disrepute.
The CDC discovered it confirmed that Pyrah had used racist and discriminatory language about Asian ladies, particularly that he had referred to Azeem Rafiq’s sister Amna as a “match Paki” or an “FP” at a Yorkshire media day in 2014 in Rafiq’s presence, and on different events in 2014 and/or 2018.
Yorkshire had earlier agreed a settlement with Pyrah in September 2022 after they accepted his sacking in December 2021 had been “procedurally unfair”, however he now returns to the membership the place he featured as an all-rounder for over a decade.
Pyrah will formally begin the position subsequent month, Yorkshire stated.
“It’s an unimaginable honour for me to be given the chance to guide Yorkshire’s ladies facet and it’s the proudest second of my profession,” Pyrah stated. “That is an thrilling time to be concerned in ladies’s cricket, following ECB’s restructure of the ladies’s skilled sport.”
Yorkshire Ladies will be part of Derbyshire, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Kent, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Middlesex, Sussex and Worcestershire in Tier 2 within the 2025 season, with the ten counties enjoying 50-over and 20-over cricket. Yorkshire will then grow to be a Tier 1 membership for the 2026 season.
The cricket membership’s chair Colin Graves stated: “We’re delighted Richard has agreed to grow to be the pinnacle coach of our ladies’s staff and we’re more than happy to welcome him again to Yorkshire.
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“After an intensive and strong course of, Richard stood out amongst an unimaginable shortlist of candidates. By the entire course of it was clear Richard is the precise individual to guide Yorkshire into the membership’s new chapter and take our ladies’s skilled staff to the best stage.”
