Azeem Rafiq is a former Yorkshire cricketer.
Tom Harrison, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, says that Azeem Rafiq's testimony on racism in cricket has led to a period of soul-searching within the sport.
Rafiq's evidence led to a focus on the experiences and progression of South Asians in cricket.
The South Asian Action Plan was launched by the ECB in order to address the problem of under-representation of this group of players in the professional game.
There are approximately one million South Asian cricket fans in England and Wales, but the aim of the plan was to get more of them playing, supporting and getting involved in the sport.
Some in the game see it as atick-boxing exercise, but is it a genuine base to build from for the future? How much progress has been made since it was launched three years ago?
The statistics are assessed by the BBC to see what has changed, while also hearing what people think about the SAAP's success or otherwise.
What are the most important statistics?
Rafiq and others have been quoted a number of times in recent days to highlight the issue of diversity in the game, and one of them is that only 4% of those who play cricket professionally are South Asian.
There is more detail on those numbers here.
South Asian players were represented.
30% of players are recreational.
15% of county players.
The county academy has a number of players.
4% of county players are first class.
The proportion of recreational players who are South Asian has gone down. 39% of recreational players are from an ethnic background.
In response to a question from the BBC, the ECB said it had "begun" to increase the number of South Asian players in the county academy system.
Around 10% of first-class county players are from different ethnic groups.
The PCA said its latest membership survey showed that over a quarter of the contracted men's professional players in county cricket in the upcoming season were from ethnic minorities.
Neither organisation was able to provide an up-to-date figure for South Asian representation in the professional game.
Why was the plan launched?
The reason for the action plan was to address a perceived lack of communication between cricket and the South Asian community.
Tom Harrison, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, said at the time that they have never fully understood how to engage with South Asian communities. The report gives us a road map to change that.
The plan was launched as a senior independent director by Lord Patel.
The passion South Asian communities in the UK have for cricket remains high but, over 50 years later, there is still so much undiscovered potential. This plan will help to change that.
He said it was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to engage Asian communities.
There are more opportunities for South Asian communities to engage with cricket.
There are barriers to participation in cricket for South Asian players.
The cricket network and South Asian communities have strong relationships.
Cricket can be used to make a difference.
The action plan covers facilities, formats, children and schools, women and girls, talent identification, development and retention, financial support, elite coaching, matchday experience, communication and the cricket workforce.
Here's more on some of those areas.
Retention and talent identification.
The South Asian Action Plan found that 50% of respondents felt that more'scouts' were needed to watch non-traditional cricket environments.
The National Asian Cricket Council and the England and Wales Cricket Board are collaborating on a programme called "Community Talent Champs".
Three counties have taken part in the pilot.
Five Community Talent Champs have been recruited across the three counties to test new ways to spot England stars of the future - by identifying and developing players of potential from diverse and non-traditional cricketing pathways and who may not have the opportunity to be seen in the traditional. Our plans are to expand to other cities and regions based on the learnings from the pilots.
The County Partnership Agreement requires all first-class counties to establish a scouting system to support identification of players into the pathway. The T20 City Cup has been refocused to act as an identification tool for young people from urban areas, as well as a new talent development framework for the boys' and girls' game.
There are facilities.
Access to facilities in urban areas is the biggest barrier to South Asian participation.
The aim of the ECB is to create between one and three Urban Cricket Centres in the next two years, install 100 non-turf pitches in urban areas and upgrade 25 turf pitches in urban areas.
The first two have been accomplished. The ambition regarding turf pitches has not been met.
The urban hub in Yorkshire will be built in West Bowling and is due to open in Summer 2022.
The goal is to create 20 Urban Cricket Centres, install 1,000 non-turf pitches and upgrade 100 turf pitches by the year 2024.
The person is coaching.
Less than 5% of the coaching staff at first-class counties were from South Asian in 2018, with the ECB unable to provide the latest data for that.
More coaches from South Asian and other ethnic groups are being supported to achieve their Advanced and Specialist level qualifications through bursaries and mentoring programmes.
In addition to mentoring and education programmes, it added that 22% of the latest Specialist course and 21% of the Advanced course were from an ethnic minority background.
There is anti-discrimination work.
The county academy staff received bias training in the last two years.
The anti-racism education programme was delivered to professional cricketers, academy players, coaches and support staff.
The PCA is being developed to test the application of learning.
Cricket workers.
Only one first-class county chief executive of South Asian origin was in the cricket workforce.
The Rooney Rule was introduced for coaching appointments at the European Central Bank.
The workforce of the ECB is up from last year.
The governing body said it will have updated information at the start of 2022.
A new County Governance Code is being implemented to ensure an appropriate representation of under-represented communities in decision-making positions.
What do those in cricket say?
Cricket's South Asian Action Plan is a talking shop.
"I think it's a talking shop, it's a tick-box exercise, that's my experience of it, I'm going to be brutally honest," Ijaz Khan said.
"I've been to open workshops and we talk about stuff, we seem to talk about the same stuff 12 months on, and there's no progress, I can't even say it's been done."
The last couple of weeks have highlighted some really uncomfortable truths about where cricket is today and the length of the work that we have to do, according to the head of strategy for the England and Wales Cricket Board.
There are some really good people in cricket and all sports doing good work. That should not be forgotten.
There is a real opportunity, even though the next couple of weeks will be uncomfortable. The silver lining is that we can use the power that sport has to really accelerate this, learn from it.
Tino Best, who played for Yorkshire and Hampshire, told the radio station that more work is needed to improve diversity.
How many black players do you see in county cricket? He said you hardly see anything. There are many stories of black cricketers in England that have suffered.
The game is not a boys' club and the players in those neighbourhoods need to be made more inclusive. Cricket has gone past the days of being an institution of high school boys who are the only ones who play cricket, and boys from low demographic ought to play football and other sports.
Representatives from the England and Wales Cricket Board, the Professional Cricketers' Association, the Marylebone Cricket Club, the National Counties Cricket Association and the First-Class and Recreational County Cricket network committed to "tangible action" to make cricket more open and inclusive.
Harrison was asked what made this plan different from previous ones.
The proof will be in how we deliver it. This will be the first time that the game has come together to take direct action.
The new plans will be added to the 11-point South Asian Action Plan and the six priorities from the Inspiring Generations strategy.
The distance we need to travel to make cricket truly inclusive is demonstrated by what has happened in the last few weeks.
English cricket's racism crisis has led to fresh ambitions by the game to better reflect the wider society, but it has also prompted heightened scrutiny over how effective its existing plans to improve inclusivity and diversity have been.
Azeem Rafiq spoke to the sports editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
