“I deeply regret my actions”: David Lloyd apologize to Azeem Rafiq and the Asian cricket community over racism

English commentator David Lloyd has apologized to Azeem Rafiq and the Asian cricket community for the racial remarks.

Azeem Rafiq’s racism case is gaining the world’s eyebrows now. Rafeeq was speaking at the parliamentary hearing in Westminster, and he revealed a lot of instances of the past. He also accused the media persons and commentators of engaging in denials, cover-ups, and mocking of the racial incidents.

“It’s clear the problem is there,” Rafiq said.

“I think it’s been an open secret. As I’ve seen over the last 15 months, if you speak out your life is going to be made hell – and there’s no doubt my life.”

“High-profile media people messaging other members of the media who supported me saying stuff like, ‘The clubhouses are the lifeblood of a club and Asian players don’t go in there, ‘Getting subs out of Asian players is like getting blood out of stone’.”

Azeem Rafiq also particularly named David Lloyd aka Bumble in one of his statements.

“That was David Lloyd, he’s been an England coach, commentator, and I found it disturbing because Sky are supposedly doing this amazing work on bringing racism to the front and within a week of me speaking out that’s what I got sent to me.

“And I thought, ‘Gosh, there’s some closet racists and we need to do something about it’.”

David Lloyd issues an apology to Azeem Rafiq

Former English coach and current commentator, David Lloyd has issued an apology to Azeem Rafiq and the Asian cricket community. The 74-years old has acknowledged that he made an error of judgment in making generalizations.