Article in The cricketer:
https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/cricket-racism-crisis/lord_patel_takes_aim_robin_smith_yorkshire_reforms_blocked.html"Yorkshire chair Lord Patel has accused Robin Smith, of “actively working with the sole intention to destabilise and even destroy” the club.
Patel, who was appointed Yorkshire chair following revelations of racism at the club, had proposed a raft of constitutional changes designed to promote diversity and convince the ECB that Leeds was a fitting host for international cricket. The ECB had stripped them of that right after the emergence of a history of racism at Yorkshire.
But Smith, a past chair and president of the club, has effectively delayed such changes being ratified by pointing out some procedural errors which took place before Patel’s involvement with the club.
It is understood those errors relate to a failure to notify the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of an agreement whereby the club could contact members by email instead of post. ........."