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Former England captain Michael Vaughan will be part of the BBC’s cricket coverage of the Ashes series and England’s one-off Test match against Ireland in June, the broadcaster said on Friday.
Vaughan, 48, stepped down from his commentary duties last June after his former Yorkshire team-mate Azeem Rafiq alleged he had used racist language during a club cricket match.
Vaughan vehemently denied the charge and was cleared by the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) in March.
Rafiq, a player of Pakistani origin, claimed that Vaughan told him and other players of Asian origin that there were “too many of you, we have to do something about it” before the 2009 match.
The CDC said its panel was “not satisfied on the balance of probabilities” that Vaughan said the words “under the circumstances and particular circumstances alleged”.
Vaughan, who led England to success in the 2005 Ashes series, was one of seven people accused by the England and Wales Cricket Board of using racist or discriminatory language.
He had previously been ruled out of the BBC’s 2021-22 Australian Ashes.
England face Ireland at Lord’s on June 1 before the five-Test Ashes series against Australia begins at Edgbaston on June 16.
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