Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) chief executive Rob Lynch has admitted the organisation "had some failings" in their handling of the Azeem Rafiq allegations of racism against Yorkshire.
During his testimony at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee hearing, Rafiq called the PCA "incredibly inept".
"It was, 'oh, we've got members on both sides'," Rafiq said. "So, you're protecting the perpetrators and you have no interest in where this is taking me?
"The PCA kept telling me, when the report comes out they would support me. Once it did, they said we have no powers, we can just push the ECB."
On Tuesday, the PCA spoke to the DCMS committee and Lynch admitted they got things wrong, saying: "Look, we had some failings in our dealings with Azeem Rafiq and have learnt a lot of lessons from the last 12 months with Azeem.
"We applaud Azeem for his courage and bravery for being a whistleblower to create necessary chances.
"PCA have offered support to Azeem throughout his career but clearly with this dispute with Yorkshire we did not meet the standards we needed to and have apologised to him for what went wrong.
"We have listened to Azeem about what can be done and a number of changes have been introduced."
When asked what he had learned from Rafiq's testimony, Lynch replied: "I specifically learned we needed to voice pressure more publicly and more quickly, which in this incidence was with Yorkshire and the ECB, so if we were in a similar issue again, we would do that.
"We had some failing and learning through this experience. We should have stepped in and put more public pressure on the ECB and Yorkshire.
"We put too much faith in Yorkshire and the ECB. We should have said in media we wanted Yorkshire to conclude their findings quicker."
