Middlesex urged to review culture and behaviour

Middlesex County Cricket Club should undertake a formal review of its culture, governance and the behaviour of staff members, according to the sport's regulator.

- Matt Hughes

The club is awaiting the verdict of a Cricket Discipline Commission hearing after being charged with improper conduct by the Cricket Regulator in September. In September 2023 it was fined £50,000 and given a suspended points deduction by the ECB after being found guilty of spending central funding allocated for grassroots programmes on its first team.

Separately, the Guardian has learned that the Cricket Regulator's board asked two of its board members in September to review how the body handled complaints about the culture inside Middlesex. The Cricket Regulator is the sport's independent disciplinary and compliance body that was set up by the England and Wales Cricket Board after its governance system was criticised by MPs following the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal.