Joe Clarke played a game that trivialised rape: England cricket should demand better | Jonathan Liew

If he cannot prove he is no longer the man who engaged in ‘foul sexism’ on a WhatsApp group, how does he represent all of us?

The rules of “Stat Chat” were simple enough. The game would begin the night after Joe Clarke returned from England Lions duty in the United Arab Emirates. “Got to be freshies,” Alex Hepburn wrote in their shared WhatsApp group, meaning women they had not slept with before. “Names, age, black or white, your rating, their rating.”

“No reheats allowed,” Clarke confirmed, meaning women they had slept with before.

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