[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

I was genuinely gobsmacked yesterday when it came out that someone had used that racial slur as a nickname for him. I mean, on one level I'm inclined to think that it probably *was* intended as banter, because I struggle to believe that even the thickest racist on earth would actually toss that kind of stuff around in a 21st century workplace and expect no punishment for it, but even so, why would you cross that line even if you meant it as a joke? And madness for Yorkshire to try and sweep it under the carpet, too. Sponsors have every right to pull out if their own image is at risk of being tainted by association.

It's reaching the point where I'm starting to feel like the last sane person on earth, but surely it's not that difficult to find a happy medium between "this cricketer cracked some edgy jokes as a teenager a decade ago and then grew out of it, let's try and end his career," and "this cricketer repeatedly used racial slurs as nicknames for his teammate, he's a proper character, let's pretend it never happened."