{"id":735868,"date":"2026-08-12T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735868\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:08:11","slug":"middlesex-cricket-club-reports-spectators-racial-abuse-of-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735868\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesex Cricket: Club reports spectator&#8217;s &#8216;racial abuse&#8217; of player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesex CCC have reported an incidence of racial abuse from a visiting spectator at the club&#8217;s One-Day Cup match against Sussex on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The individual, who is believed to have been there to watch Sussex but is understood not to be a Sussex member, was ejected from the ground at Radlett after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Middlesex Cricket is appalled and deeply disappointed to report that during yesterday&#8217;s game at Radlett, a valuable member of our team was racially abused by an away supporter,&#8221; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middlesexccc.com\/news\/2026\/08\/club-statement-incident-of-discrimination\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club statement said, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Middlesex Cricket strongly condemns this behaviour and will work closely with the regulatory body to investigate the perpetrator and support our member of staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport understands the victim of the abuse was not a Middlesex player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesex have reported the incident to Sussex and the Cricket Regulator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Sussex CCC said: &#8220;We are currently investigating the matter and are not in a position to make a comment at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cricket Regulator has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middlesex CCC have reported an incidence of racial abuse from a visiting spectator at the club&#8217;s One-Day Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}