Vaughan gives evidence in English cricket racism hearing

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Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan has been made to confront his historic racially aggravated tweets while giving evidence at a hearing where he denied using a racist phrase toward teammates when playing for Yorkshire. Vaughan was one of the best England batters of his generation. He has been cross-examined in front of a disciplinary panel for more than an hour. Vaughan is facing a charge by the England and Wales Cricket Board after he was alleged by former Yorkshire player Azeem Rafiq to have told a group of Yorkshire teammates of Asian ethnicity in 2009 that there were "too many of you lot, we need to do something about it."