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LONDON:  Former England captain Michael Vaughan categorically denied that he ever made racist comments during his stint with county side Yorkshire, though he added that he would “take some responsibility” because he “played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club for 18 years”. Vaughan was dropped from the BBC’s coverage panel for the Ashes series, beginning December 8, after his name appeared in the racism controversy involving former Yorkshire player Azeem Rafiq. Rafiq, who played for Yorkshire between 2008 and 2018, recently recounted the ‘institutionally racist’ English cricket culture before the parliamentary committee...