Joe Clarke played a game that trivialised rape: England cricket should demand better | Jonathan Liew

Photograph: Alex Davidson/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Alex Davidson/Getty Imageshe rules of “Stat Chat” were simple enough. The game would begin the night after Joe Clarke returned from England Lions duty in the United Arab Emirates. “Got to be freshies,” Alex Hepburn wrote in their shared WhatsApp group, meaning women they had not slept with before. “Names, age, black or white, your rating, their rating.”“Always me dragging the birds back, you raping them,” Hepburn complained.

Let’s not demean ourselves by debating Clarke’s merits as a cricketer as if they matter. All you need to know is that the Nottinghamshire batter was placed on the standby list for England’s recent tour of the West Indies, had a stellar winter with Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash and was snapped up for a top-price £125,000 by Welsh Fire in the Hundred draft this year.

“I mourn who I used to be,” the victim wrote. She told how she had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, blighted by recurring nightmares, panic attacks, anxiety and violent outbursts. The attack had affected her relationship with her loved ones. All of which had been exacerbated by being forced to relive her ordeal in court, her rapist a short distance away, the defending barrister asking her questions such as: “Joe Clarke has a large penis.

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