PRESS STATEMENT- FOLLOWING MEETING WITH CEO CRICKET SCOTLAND AND MAJID HAQ & QASIM SHEIKH

PRESS STATEMENT- FOLLOWING MEETING WITH CEO CRICKET SCOTLAND AND MAJID HAQ & QASIM SHEIKH

Statement by Aamer Anwar- Solicitor on behalf of Majid & Qasim

“We welcomed today’s meeting with Cricket Scotland’s CEO Gordon Arthur- Myself, Majid Haq and Qasim Sheikh met on the day that the new Chair Anjun Luthra was appointed.

Gordon stated he is deeply committed to eradicating racism from the sport.

Anjun was also in touch today and publicly stated that everything that Majid, Qasim and others have been through was completely unacceptable-It should never have happened.

That was a welcome opening statement, we appreciate the difficult challenges he faces in trying make the racist dinosaurs extinct.

We were advised today that a panel for conduct in sport for Cricket Scotland is being set up will operate nationally. If done right it will be an important step in assuring consistency in discipline, equality and eradicating the old boy’s network.

It is clear that Cricket Scotland remains hugely under-resourced and it is for Sport Scotland to wake up to this, the massive hole in cricket funding needs resolved, if the promises made to the victims of racism are not betrayed.

Today we expressed significant concerns on the robustness of investigation being carried out, they must have access to all the evidence from Plan 4Sport. Importantly Gordon advised today that Plan4Sport is still taking complaints and the door remains open.”