FILE PHOTO: Cricket - Essex vs West Indies - Tour Match - Chelmsford, Britain - August 2, 2017 General view as rain delays play Action Images via Reuters/Tony O'Brien
(Reuters) - Essex have been fined 50,000 pounds ($61,835) by an independent Cricket Discipline Commission panel after the English county club pleaded guilty to two charges in relation to a racist comment made at a board meeting in 2017.
Essex chairman John Faragher resigned from his role in November 2021 after the allegation that he used racist language, although he strongly denied the incident.
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