anuj dal is a professional cricketer.nal cricketers' association, and he fought abuse — with restorative justice. that was a very satisfying feeling, knowing that i'd covered all bases, and i felt as though i needed to do what i had done to be able to move on from it. it all began last spring — in the wake of azeem rafiq's racism testimony, anuj spoke to me eloquently about the opportunity for cricket to grow. then, on social media, anuj himself was racially abused. i remember we were sat together in a team meeting ready to go and play ourfirst game at lord's, against middlesex, and i was in full cricket mode, and all of a sudden, get a notification on my phone, i look at it and think, what on earth is going on? and it was, you know, just a direct racial abusive comment, directed to me, based off the piece that i did with you. anuj was supported by the professional cricketers' association, by the police and by counsellors from restorative justice. they found the abuser, they mediated and eventually communicated a form of