he was knocked out of the uk championship by 19 year old sijar hui last night, one of half a dozen amateurs in the field. i v e i ve seen today how the story has blown up and is still trending in all the rest of it. it s madness from my point of view. for me that has to be a line. if there is no distinction between the probe towards an amateur tors, let s just have one big tour then. i think amateurs, very good amateurs standing in front and potentially being banana skins for professional players who earn their living this way is a problem. the bbc has dropped michael vaughan from its coverage of this winter s ashes series the former england captain was named in yorkshire s report into azeem rafiq s claims of racism during his time with the club. vaughan has denied the allegation but the bbc say we require our contributors to talk about relevant topics and his involvement in the yorkshire story represents