Yorkshire County Cricket Club deducted 48 points in County Championship and fined £400k in racism punishment | Cricket News

Yorkshire have been deducted 48 points in the County Championship, four points in the T20 Blast and fined £400,000, by the independent Cricket Discipline Commission as part of the investigation into racism at the club.

The county admitted four amended charges of breaching ECB Directive 3.3, with the CDC Panel holding a hearing last month to determine the sanction.

On Friday, it announced Yorkshire would be immediately deducted 48 points from the County Championship, which will leave them bottom of Division Two, and four competition points from the Vitality Blast.

The county were also fined a total of £400,000, with £300,000 of that suspended for two years. There are 14 days for any appeals to be lodged.

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