The Yorkshire County Cricket Club conceded that Azeem Rafiq was “offended, degraded or humiliated and that this amounted to harassment” while his time with the county and said that he was subjected to situations "capable of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment” in the dressing room.
However, they dismissed one player regularly calling Azeem Rafiq using the term 'P**i' as a “friendly, good-natured banter” between two players in its report of the investigation into racism allegations levied by the leg-spinner, ESPNcricinfo reported.
The issue goes deeper though as ESPNcricinfo reports that player admitting to also saying stuff like "don't talk to him [Rafiq], he's a P**i", asking "is that your uncle?" when they saw bearded Asian men and saying "does your dad own those?" in reference to corner shops, to other teammates of him and Rafiq.
The county also put the onus on Rafiq and said that he should have taken those words as "friendly banter" and should not have gotten offended. They said that he was “expected to take such comments in the spirit in which they were intended (i.e. good natured banter between friends)… [so] it was not reasonable for Azeem to have been offended by [the other player] directing equally offensive or derogatory comments back at him in the same spirit of friendly banter."
The report did not divulge the identity of the person causing that offence to Rafiq and also suggested that the player was unaware of the impact those words had left on Rafiq, who reportedly broke down in tears while recalling those memories.