Former England captain Michael Vaughan has been dropped from a BBC show after the racism allegations were put on against him by two players. However, Vaughan has been working for 12 years as an analyst on Test Match Special on the BBC 5 Live’s ‘The Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show’. But he did not appear in the show on Monday after the allegations of racism by Azeem Rafiq, who said that Vaughan had made racist comments about him and other players before a Yorkshire match way back in 2009.

In a column for ‘Daily Telegraph’, Vaughan has revealed that he was the former cricketer implicated in the investigation into Rafiq’s racism allegations at Yorkshire but “completely and categorically” denied all the charges and vowed to “fight” to clear his name from that as well. Vaughan, who had made his debut for England in 1991 and announced his retirement in 2009, said to a group of Asian players, which also included Rafiq, “Too many of you lot, we need to do something about it.”

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“I completely and categorically deny that I ever said those words. I have nothing to hide. The ‘you lot’ comment never happened,” the 2005 Ashes winning captain wrote in the column. “Anyone trying to recollect words said 10 years ago will be fallible but I am adamant those words were not used. If Rafiq believes something was said at the time to upset him then that is what he believes.”

Earlier, he has said that Pakistan will give a tough fight to the team that will take on them in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2021. And, he believes England might not want to face them as well. He said that because Pakistan registered three consecutive wins in three games and their last win came against Afghanistan in Dubai on Friday.