Richard Pyrah, who was sacked in 2021 amid the Yorkshire racism scandal, has been named because the county’s new girls’s head coach.
The 41-year-old was discovered to have used racist slurs by a Cricket Self-discipline Fee (CDC) panel in March 2023 and fined £2,500 and banned from coaching for two weeks.
During the CDC hearing, Pyrah was accused of utilizing a racial slur referring to Pakistani heritage in the direction of the sister of then-team-mate Azeem Rafiq in addition to the time period “you lot” in the direction of teams of Asian gamers, each of which he denied.
The allegation Pyrah used the time period “you lot” was not proved.
Nevertheless, it discovered the allegation he used a racial slur in the direction of Amna Rafiq and different girls proved.
Pyrah’s suspension has not but been served, in accordance with the Press Affiliation. The Cricket Regulator is known to be in contact with Yorkshire concerning the timing round Pyrah serving the ban in his new function.
The 41-year-old, who received a declare of unfair dismissal towards Yorkshire in 2022, spent 10 years taking part in for Yorkshire and took 296 wickets throughout all codecs of the sport.
He went on to work as their bowling coach and coached Yorkshire Ladies’s Tremendous League Twenty20 crew earlier than being sacked.
“It is an unbelievable honour for me to be given the chance to guide Yorkshire’s girls aspect and it is the proudest second of my profession,” Pyrah, who will take up his new role next month, told the club website., external
“That is an thrilling time to be concerned in girls’s cricket, following the 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 subsequent season, with the ten counties taking part in 50-over and 20-over cricket.
Yorkshire will then grow to be a Tier 1 membership for the 2026 season.
