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The England women’s captain, Heather Knight, has apologised after she was reprimanded and given a suspended £1,000 fine for attending a fancy dress party in blackface in 2012.
Pictures of Knight at the party, an end-of-season event at a Kent cricket club with a “sports stars” theme, emerged recently on Facebook, leading to her being charged last month by the Cricket Regulator with bringing the game into disrepute.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep/23/heather-knight-apologises-for-historical-blackface-photo-posted-on-social-media-cricket
Author : Simon Burnton
Publish date : 2024-09-23 16:47:06
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