The previous chair of Cricket Scotland has issued a scathing criticism of final yr’s investigation into racism within the sport, calling the report “fatally and irredeemably flawed” and urging the Scottish authorities to fee an unbiased enquiry into the way it was put collectively.
Tony Brian, who was Cricket Scotland chair between 2015 and 2022, has submitted a doc entitled “complaints and whistleblowing disclosures” to SportScotland, the physique that oversaw publication of the Altering the Boundaries report in July 2022. His findings have additionally been copied to Scotland’s first minister and Audit Scotland.
Brian claims shortcomings within the report imply that the cost of institutional racism in opposition to Cricket Scotland, which led to the board resigning en masse, was not supportable. He has additionally requested that the governing physique be faraway from particular measures.
“We now know that SportScotland’s so-called ‘unbiased’ report was flawed from its inception and a gross waste of enormous quantities of public cash,” Brian stated. “The outcomes of Freedom of Data requests and in-depth evaluation of the report and its methodology now present clearly that it was a deeply flawed report with a pre-determined consequence performed by ill-resourced and conflicted reviewers who did not undertake correct forensic investigation and even to talk to many related people.”
Scottish cricket continues to cope with fallout from the Altering the Boundaries report, which recognized 448 examples of alleged institutional racism and located Cricket Scotland had failed 29 of the 31 checks used to measure the dimensions of the issue.
In March, Brian’s successor as chair, Anjan Luthra, resigned after simply six months within the function, citing disagreements with the way in which SportScotland was trying to run the sport. Cricket Scotland has but to switch Luthra and is at the moment being run by an interim chief government appointed final month.
Brian’s file argues that in addition to “as much as £1m” in wasted public expenditure on the investigation, Cricket Scotland has missed out on “tens of tens of millions of kilos of potential funding” by the ICC, with the report’s publication halting an utility for Scotland to change into a Full…
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