Michael Vaughan returns to BBC cricket coverage for Ashes summer | Michael Vaughan

Michael Vaughan is to return to the BBC and play a key half in its cricket coverage this summer after being earlier this yr cleared of constructing a racist comment throughout his time as a participant at Yorkshire.

The former England captain will broadcast on England’s first house Test this yr, towards Ireland at Lord’s, and for the Ashes collection that follows it, with the company saying that he will likely be contributing to their Test Match Special radio commentary and be among the many company for the Ireland Test’s highlights programme, to be broadcast on BBC Two on 1 June.

Vaughan was dropped from the BBC’s coverage of the final Ashes collection, in Australia in 2021-22, after he was accused by Azeem Rafiq of constructing a racist remark earlier than a Yorkshire recreation in 2009. Though he was initially included within the company’s plans for final summer’s Test coverage, as soon as it emerged that he had been charged by the England and Wales Cricket Board with bringing the sport into disrepute, in reference to that very same incident, BBC Sport’s Black, Asian and minority ethnic group intervened, sending an e mail to workers on the company that described his involvement as “totally inexcusable” and “a shocking miscalculation”. The former England captain introduced the next day that he would “step back from my work with the BBC for the time being”.

But expenses towards him have been dismissed in March by the ECB’s Cricket Discipline Commission. He had been accused of telling a bunch of 4 gamers of Asian descent that “there’s too many of you lot” earlier than a Twenty20 recreation, however he constantly denied doing so and the CDC members concluded they have been “not satisfied on the balance of probabilities that these words were spoken by Michael Vaughan at the time and in the specific circumstances alleged”. After that call Vaughan mentioned he had been “brought to the brink of falling out of love with cricket” butthat the result of the hearings “must not be allowed to detract from the core message that there can be no place for racism in the game of cricket, or society generally” and added: “I remain keen to help bring about positive change in any way that I can.”