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Debt-ridden Yorkshire face paying out vast sums in compensation and legal fees to sacked coaches after the club conceded liability in their claims of unfair dismissal.
Sportsmail understands the club are preparing to offer settlements to former head coach Andrew Gale, second XI coach Ian Dews, academy director Richard Damms, bowling coach Richard Pyrah and the strength and conditioning coaches Ian Fisher and Peter Sim, who were among 16 members of staff sacked last December in the wake of the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal.
Yorkshire are set to publish their 2021 accounts after today’s annual meeting at Headingley, and it is understood they include £1.9million set aside as an ‘exceptional item’ to cover settlement costs and other liabilities. That figure includes the £200,000 paid to Rafiq together with his legal costs and a pay-off given to former chief executive Mark Arthur, but provides ‘a provision in respect of those who have brought legal claims against the club’.
