Yorkshire drive former captain and coach Andrew Gale to pen a non-disclosure settlement

Former Yorkshire captain and coach Andrew Gale was pressured to signal a non-disclosure settlement (NDA) earlier than the membership belatedly agreed to signal his compensation package deal after conceding his claims of unfair dismissal final week. 

The monetary phrases of the deal have been agreed at a mediation listening to in Leeds on September 14 as was revealed by Sportsmail later that night, with Yorkshire confirming {that a} settlement had been reached in an announcement launched the next day, however in a rare improvement the membership then back-tracked and refused to signal the settlement.

Yorkshire’s shock U-turn led to an extra week of frantic talks between the 2 authorized groups, which have been solely lastly resolved final Friday when Gale reluctantly agreed to signal an NDA, which he had been resisting. 

The 38-year-old has vehemently making any racist feedback in direction of Azeem Rafiq and issued a public assertion protesting his innocence final summer time, however below the phrases of his settlement with Yorkshire will now not be permitted to debate the case or rebut any additional allegations made towards him.

Gale is the eleventh member of employees to obtain a pay-off from Yorkshire in relation to the complaints of racism and bullying made by Rafiq, who was awarded £200,000 in compensation final November earlier than the membership sacked their complete teaching and medical groups the next month. 

As a part of these agreements Gale, former director of cricket Martyn Moxon and former chief govt Mark Arthur have been all compelled to signal NDA’s, whereas Rafiq was not after he rejected Yorkshire’s preliminary request for him to take action.

He was pressured to signal a non-disclosure settlement after profitable his claims of unfair dismissal

Gale is the eleventh employees member to earn a pay-off in relation to Azeem Rafiq’s complaints of racism

Yorkshire chairman Lord Kamlesh Patel issued an apology to Rafiq for even elevating the NDA concern after his settlement was concluded final November.

‘Completely no restrictions have been positioned on Azeem on what he can or can’t say about his experiences,’ Patel stated. 

‘The settlement doesn’t contain a non-disclosure settlement. The membership was fallacious to have requested Azeem to conform to an NDA prior to now, and he rightly refused. 

‘And we have apologised unreservedly for beforehand making that demand. Our provide means Azeem will likely be free to talk about his experiences publicly.’

Yorkshire declined to remark.