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The government should limit public funding for cricket unless there is "continuous, demonstrable progress" on eradicating racism, a parliamentary report has recommended.

Azeem Rafiq gave emotional testimony last year to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee about racism he experienced at Yorkshire.

The committee's report, published today, shows chair Julian Knight MP describing Rafiq's story as "typical of an endemic problem across the whole of cricket".

Yorkshire have been widely criticised for their handling of Rafiq's allegations. Former chairman Roger Hutton and chief executive Mark Arthur have resigned and 16 members of staff have been sacked.

The committee said changes made by Lord Patel, who replaced Hutton in November, were a positive step but they alone "could not eradicate racism".

Tim Abraham is a Sky Sports cricket correspondent and senior journalism lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University,