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Just caught up with Ballance's statement, and to be fair to him, he acknowledges he was wrong and owns the mistake. His story about it being two drunken best mates trying to out-dickhead each other seems plausible, and crucially, in his subsequent statement Rafiq hasn't disputed Ballance's framing of the incident - including the allegation that Rafiq came out with equally offensive stuff in that exchange - which feels to me like a tacit admission that it's true.

I agree that we need to wait on the full facts and details from here, but it all has the feeling of a messy divorce being dragged out in public, dirty laundry aired, etc. Yorkshire have definitely got a lot of questions to answer, but I sense that no one's going to come out of this smelling of roses.