Britain captain Heather Knight has conceded a charge over a social media post in 2012 when she was envisioned in blackface.
Knight, who was 21 at the time, was going to an end-of-season favor dress party at a cricket club in Kent.
A picture of Knight in blackface was posted to the Facebook account of another person.
She has been decried by the Cricket Teach Commission and fined £1,000, which is suspended for two a long time.
“I’m genuinely too bad for the botch I made in 2012,” said the 33-year-old in a explanation issued by means of the Britain and Grains Cricket Board (ECB).
“It was off-base, and I have long lamented it. Back at that point, I essentially was not as taught as to the suggestions and results of my activities as I have gotten to be since. There was no ill-intent implied.
“While I can’t alter the past, I am enthusiastic and committed to utilizing my stage to advance inclusivity over the diversion, guaranteeing under-represented bunches are managed the same openings and satisfaction inside the diversion as I have.”
Knight has been captain of the Britain women’s group since 2016 and will proceed to lead the side at the T20 World Glass within the Joined together Middle easterner Emirates following month.
The player has been with Britain on their preparing camp in Abu Dhabi since 13 September.
ECB chief official Richard Gould included:
“Heather perceives this was a genuine blunder of judgment which took put more than 10 a long time back and has properly apologized.
“As a open figure and pioneer, Heather has worked energetically to cultivate a more comprehensive and evenhanded future for cricket.
“She has championed activities to advance differing qualities and emphatically pushed for minimized communities. She has appeared herself to be a positive part demonstrate.
“Whereas we cannot alter the past, we are able certainly learn from it. This occurrence serves as a update of the continuous work to combat bigotry and segregation.”
When Knight gone to the party with a ‘sports stars’ topic 12 a long time prior she had as of now been an Britain player for more than two a long time.
The photo of Knight was detailed to the Cricket Controller in July of this year and she was charged in Admirable. At the time she was captain of London Soul within The Hundred, which the side went on to win.
Between times chief of the Cricket Controller Dave Lewis said:
“Cricket is working to ended up a more comprehensive don and the Cricket Controller is committed to acting emphatically and fair-mindedly at whatever point bigot conduct is detailed to us.
“In this case, Ms Knight’s conduct was unfair and hostile, in any case the Cricket Teach Commission acknowledged there was no supremacist aim in her conduct. I welcome her affirmation of the potential affect of her conduct, and her open expression of remorse.”
