Azeem Rafiq has been suspended by Yorkshire following his foul-mouthed Twitter rant at England Under-19s coach John Abrahams.

The 19-year-old off spinner will be unavailable for selection pending a full investigation by the club.

Rafiq, left out of the second Test match against Sri Lanka at Scarborough this week, referred to Abrahams as a “useless ******”.

He wrote: “What a ******* farsee ... John Abrahams is a useless ****... ECB prove it again what incompetent people are working for them!! John Abrahams is a useless ******.”

Rafiq is understood to have broken mid-match curfews during the first Test at Northampton last week, a fixture in which he captained England.

Yorkshire chief executive Stewart Regan said: “Azeem’s behaviour was totally unacceptable. The club will not tolerate it. Our professional players are role models to aspiring young cricketers and need to behave as such.

“While Azeem has apologised formally to the ECB, the club and the coach in question, the club still intend to carry out a full investigation before deciding on what disciplinary action to take.

“In the meantime, he is suspended on full pay and unavailable for selection.”

Other Yorkshire players with their own Twitter pages include captain Andrew Gale, Jacques Rudolph, Tim Bresnan and Rich Pyrah.

Regan will be issuing a policy document to all players at Yorkshire, from academy through to the senior team, warning them about their use of sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

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