Other sports bodies to hold their own reviews into case against Delia Bushell

The England and Wales Cricket Board and Commonwealth Games England have both said they will be holding their own reviews into the furore surrounding Delia Bushell, who resigned as group chief executive of the Jockey Club in sensational circumstances on Sunday.

Bushell is a non-executive director of the two organisations, joining both bodies in 2018.

The ECB, the single national governing body for all cricket in England and Wales, said it would be contacting both Bushell and the Jockey Club over the controversial case in which an inquiry upheld allegations against Bushell of bullying of colleagues, racist comments and the sharing of offensive material.

Bushell's future is likely to be one of the items at the top of the in-tray of the ECB's new chairman Ian Watmore, who succeeds Colin Graves on Tuesday.

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An ECB statement said: "We do not underestimate the seriousness of the claims made against Delia, but we will seek to review and discuss what is clearly a complex matter with both her and the Jockey Club before commenting further."

Commonwealth Games England manages the participation of Team England at the games and is the host association for the next event in Birmingham in two years' time.

They said in a statement: "We are aware of reports in the media concerning Delia Bushell and will not make any further comment until we have reviewed the situation."

Bushell, who has launched a staunch defence of her actions and has accused the Jockey Club of having "fundamentally mishandled" the affair, is also a member of the Telegraph Advisory Board, which supplies strategic guidance to the newspaper group's executive team.

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