David Willey was the Yorkshire T20 captain and he recently
clearly had an acrimonious split with them. Yorkshire claimed they could not match Northants'(his original club) offer, which is an absolute load of shite. In fact Willey publicly refuted their statement and said it was because of recent events and the club was not putting players and cricket first.
Reading between the lines I'd say they're so desperate to clear their name that they're willing to hang anyone out to dry. If he had any part of it, his departure would not likely enable him to dodge a bullet, so it's probably that he was disgusted that the club would not at least stand some ground against the accusations levelled at them. He finally worked out all by himself that players are highly expendable by the suit and pointy shoe brigade.
Ballance's latest apology has nothing to do with him waiting to be in a better head space, but will have been timed well to suit whatever is going on.
There's no way Ballance was the only one making comments because he would have been told to wind his neck in, it would have been a number of people making remarks, not realising they had consequences.
What is viewed as ok right now may well not be in a few years time. What is not ok right now may well be the norm down the line. People generally go with what is permissable at the time and most fudge that line as well.
What is pertinent is whether Ballance was the only one that has personally apologised. There are 6 others that have been individually implicated, have they manned up?
I find it a bit weird when someone apologises on behalf of an organisation. The organisation didn't do a damned thing, it's an inanimate entity. Nobody within that entity said-
Here are my credentials, I'm representing Yorkshire and on behalf of Yorkshire we think you're a P#%.... I mean that's laughable.
As an organisation they're guilty of allowing an environment in which people have gotten away with stuff, but it's the individuals themselves that are to blame for what actually transpired. I guess it's what they're trying to brand Institutional Racism when it's the guy at the counter that denied your loan and may well have been instructed to do so by the human in the board room.
I'd like to know how much Rafiki has financially benefitted from all of this. If he was that aggrieved he should have put his hand up when it happened. His timing indicates that he's lined up the club to pay for the actions/utterances of individuals. When Ballance was calling him a Pakistani when he was living in his house in Zim he chose to not say much. If he'd burst into tears or taken a swing back then he may well have nipped it in the bud 12 years ago. I'm uber skeptical of this guy.
The blacks and whites have some pretty shit names for each other here
. Everyone is pretty careful though, we're all learning.