Heather Knight, captain of the England women’s cricket team, has received a suspended fine for a racist blackface photo she took in 2012. Knight was reprimanded and fined 1,000 pounds.
Heather Knight, England’s women’s cricket captain, has been reprimanded and fined 1,000 pounds after admitting to a charge connected to a 2012 social media post, England’s Cricket Regulator announced on Monday.
The post in question depicted Knight in blackface at a fancy dress function at a cricket club in Kent. The image in question had recently emerged on social media and was deemed offensive and in breach of the ECB’s guideline 3.3, which prohibits “acts or omissions prejudicial to the interests of cricket or likely to bring cricket or cricketers into disrepute.”
“The independent Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) has issued its sanctions decision in relation to Heather Knight after she was charged over a non-recent photograph which appeared on social media.”
“At the time of the offense in 2012*, Ms. Knight acknowledged violating ECB Directive 3.3, which mentioned that “No such person may conduct himself in a manner or do any act or omission which may be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which may bring the game of cricket or any Cricketer or group of Cricketers into disrepute.” Go through the CDC’s statement.
