- Heather Knight has been reprimanded and issued a suspended wonderful
- Knight was pictured in blackface in a social media submit at a elaborate gown occasion
- The photograph was deemed offensive and in breach of ECB rules
The England girls’s captain Heather Knight has admitted a cost over a 2012 social media submit, the place she was pictured in blackface.
Knight, who was 21 on the time, was attending an end-of-season fancy gown occasion at a cricket membership in Kent when the image was taken by a 3rd occasion.
The 33-year-old has been reprimanded by the Cricket Self-discipline Fee for racist and discriminatory conduct and fined £1,000, which is suspended for 2 years.
‘I am really sorry for the error I made in 2012,’ Knight mentioned, in an announcement issued through the ECB. ‘It was incorrect, and I’ve lengthy regretted it. Again then, I merely was not as educated as to the implications and penalties of my actions as I’ve turn into since. There was no ill-intent meant.’
Knight has been England captain since 2016 and can proceed to guide the group on the T20 World Cup within the United Arab Emirates subsequent month.
Heather Knight has admitted a cost over a social media submit the place she was in blackface
Knight has been captain since 2016 and can proceed to guide the group on the T20 World Cup
When Knight attended the occasion, she had already been an England participant for greater than two years.
The {photograph} was reported to the Cricket Regulator in July this 12 months and he or she was subsequently charged in August.
On the time she was captain of London Spirit in The Hundred, which the facet went on to win.
ECB chief government Richard Gould added: ‘Heather recognises this was a critical error of judgment which came about greater than 10 years in the past and has rightly apologised.’
