Committee member Julie Elliott MP tells Rafiq she "believes him and most decent people in the country will too".

Rafiq says: "After my Sky interview, I took a phone call from Matthew Hoggard and he said: 'I am sorry if some of the comments made you feel how you described it'. I said: 'Thank you, really appreciate it.'

"I bumped into a friend a few months after and he said: 'We didn't realise we had that effect on you. If you said we would have stopped.'

"That is all I wanted, an acceptance and apology."

• BBC Sport is approaching Matthew Hoggard for comment

Rafiq is asked why he thinks people did not respond to the investigation.

"Fearful? Not trusting Yorkshire? Some of them will have known they have done wrong?" he says.

"That's for them to answer.

"The way this investigation has been done is best described as shoddy."

Rafiq details his frustration at the investigation not speaking to former players and coaches who had details about racism.

Rafiq has been asked about Yorkshire's handling of the investigation.

"I don't know what Yorkshire have done," he says. "I think throughout they have tried to discredit me.

"[Yorkshire chief executive] Mark Arthur resigned but with no remorse. His statement was like a CV. It just shows the attitude of these people.

"Why would anyone else come forward?"

He was then asked about attitudes at the highest level of the club.

"There is no excuse that they were unaware," he says. "I made it perfectly clear what I felt and what other people felt.

"Other people are still fearful of coming forward, but to say they were unaware would be an excuse."

Rafiq speaks about his contact with the Professional Cricketers' Association.

"I found the PCA stance incredibly inept," he says. "It was, 'oh, we've got members on both sides'.

"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.

"Again, an organisation that really should have been there for me and supported me left me on my own to fight on my own."

Rafiq reflects on his time at Derbyshire in 2011, before being asked about the ECB's involvement.

"I had the most enjoyable month on loan at Derby," he says. "The captain and coach made me feel welcomed and valued. I have only good words to say about my time there. I cannot speak highly enough of my stint there.

"People got sick and tired of not being given opportunities. This is where the ECB need to take control. At my local club at Barnsley, the chairman put on Facebook about a player "selling sunglasses to me in Tenerife".

"People coming into the game at a young age need to be educated."

Asked if he had been approached by the ECB, he replied: "I had a phone and Zoom call with Tom Harrison but they took the stance that Yorkshire would do the right thing.

"It was difficult for me to take through the winter. I kept begging the ECB, PCA that Yorkshire are not doing the right thing, please step in because this is going to end in a car crash.

"Once the sponsors started going and the MPs started being vocal, that is when the ECB came in. On a human point, if someone else had have told me they were suicidal and ringing to ask for help, I would forget the constitution and help the human. There have been dark moments over the winter. At one point, the PCA called the police and reported me missing. I was sat with my family. I felt that was done to tick a box in case I killed myself."

Chair Julian Knight MP says Azeem Rafiq's witness statement will be published at the end of the hearing.

On the report, Knight says "it is Yorkshire's mess" and they should publish it.

Rafiq then speaks further about his sister Amna's work at Leicester, and how widespread these issues are.

"I have not shied away from telling the truth, even when it has been difficult to hear," Rafiq says.

"Throughout this whole process, my own community and a lot of business in Bradford, have been helping Yorkshire try to cover up for whatever reason - whether that's for fear of the institution or wanting to progress themselves.

"It shows how big and how difficult the issue is."

One MP says a constituent had been writing a book and interviewed Rafiq's sister, Amna. He asks if Rafiq has spoken to her about the work she has done on community development in cricket.

"My family did not know what I was going through until last year," he says.

"I have spoken to Amna at length since, and she has opened up about her experiences at Leicester.

"I have no doubt whatever that this is a problem up and down the country."

Rafiq has been asked about former England and Yorkshire captain Michael Vaughan, who it is alleged said "there are too many of you lot" to four Asian Yorkshire cricketers.

Vaughan denies the allegation.

“It's important on Michael that we don't make it all about Michael," says Rafiq. "It was a long time ago. He might not remember it because it doesn't mean anything to him."

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Rafiq is asked again about Gary Ballance's statement:

"I didn't see that Gary actually apologised in the statement. Yorkshire and the hierarchy have made it about individuals. Even when Gary got named, I tried for him not to be named. I knew it would become an uncomfortable place for a lot of people.

"Mark Arthur, Martyn Moxon, the lawyers and the panel, it is staggering and a lot of things in there beggars belief. I hope the report can be published."

Just before the earlier break in proceedings, Rafiq spoke about people in the cricket media...

"I have seen over the last 15 months that if you speak out, your life is going to be hell. And there's no doubt that my life was made hell," Rafiq says.

He says that after speaking on national TV, there were "high-profile" media people "messaging other members of the media who have supported me, saying stuff like: 'well, a clubhouse is the lifeblood of a club, and Asian players don't go in there.'"

Rafiq says "personally, this guy does not know me, has never spent any time with me".

He states the person in question is David Lloyd.

"I found it disturbing because Sky are supposedly doing this amazing work bringing racism to the front yet within a week of me speaking out, that's what I got sent to me."

• BBC Sport is approaching David Lloyd for comment

Rafiq has been asked about England men's Test captain Joe Root saying that he cannot recall witnessing racism at Yorkshire.

"Rooty is a good man," he says. "He has never engaged in racist language. I found it hurtful because Rooty was Gary Ballance's housemate." Rafiq says Root was on nights out when racist language directed at his Pakistan heritage was used.

"Maybe he didn't remember it, but it just shows the institution that a good man like him cannot remember those things."

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Rafiq says: "Until 2017, I didn't really know for what it was. I was in denial. This is how I presented by evidence as well. I spoke about instances throughout my time which show it as being institutional.

"I reported it as bullying. For me to believe I was treated in this way because of my colour is difficult to digest."

Asked if he believes it is institutional in cricket, Rafiq replies: "Yes I do."

He adds: "Other people's experiences now ... and I have had lots talking about it up and down the country. The ECB has to take some responsibility too. It is their game, they are the regulators and their actions with the T-shirts, taking the knee - they were the one of the first teams to stop that.

"They need to stop palming off to other bodies, like the NACC [National Asian Cricket Council]."

Rafiq has been asked why he returned to Yorkshire for a second spell with the county.

"It's something I've been asked a lot.

"In my first spell, there were things that happened that I didn't see for what they were. I was in denial.

"In 2016 I started well and I was training with Derbyshire. They didn't have the finances to offer me a contract. I was in a position where putting food on the table was difficult, so that is why I went back.

"For a person of colour to accept you are being treated differently because of your race or religion is tough to take. You are always asking, 'why?'

"I didn't want to believe it. After the loss of my son, I couldn't look the other way."

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Rafiq says he felt like he had a responsibility to speak out, even though he says he and his family have been abused on social media.

"It is fine, I can take it, because it is something I am incredibly passionate about," he says.

"If Yorkshire had seen this as an opportunity to make a real difference in society and the game, this could have gone in a completely different direction.

"They didn't do that, and that is why we are where we are."

After a short break, Rafiq resumes speaking.

He is asked how he has found the response on social media.

"All I wanted was an acceptance, an apology, an understanding, and let's try and work together to ensure it never happens again," he says.

"When I raised the complaints again, it was a complete denial. I was lucky to be supported by certain members of the press but I felt like social media was my voice.

"I was not going to let this go, no matter how much damage it causes me.

"I was very determined to become a voice for the voiceless."

Rafiq is asked how he summoned the strength to do this.

"I have a bit of Karachi and bit of Barnsley in me," he says. "The pain I went through those few months, no-one can put me through that again.

"I was asked about my business and got a bit emotional in an interview.

"I thought there may be some humanity left but no. It was all about discredit, discredit, discredit."

The session takes a break, with Rafiq close to tears.

Rafiq is asked what he has been through since leaving Yorkshire in 2018.

"When I left I had four or five months left on my contract. I was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement and take a sum of money. It would have been a lot of money for me and my wife who were struggling at the time.

"I left the country to go to Pakistan and didn't want to come back."

Rafiq has been asked about the scale of the problem in professional cricket.

"It's scary," he says.

"It's clear the problem is there. Everyone has known it for a very long time. It's an open secret. I've seen that if you speak out, your life is made hell.

"There's been denial, briefings, cover-ups, smearing."