AFP, London :
The board of the cricket Scotland resigned en masse on Sunday following accusations of institutional racism in a damning independent review which is due to be published on Monday.
“The Board of Cricket Scotland has resigned. We will work in partnership with @sportscotland with immediate effect to ensure appropriate governance, leadership & support is in place for sport in the days ahead,” Cricket Scotland tweeted on Sunday.
The review was commissioned by Sport Scotland, the national funding body, after Scotland’s all-time leading wicket-taker Majid Haq told Sky Sports News that Cricket Scotland was “institutionally racist”.
Haq’s former team-mate Qasim Sheikh said he had also suffered racist abuse.
The statement added the current board had not seen the contents of the report.
