Tykes await Twenty20 Cup fate after Rafiq-gate but Durham want them out

Centre of controversy: Azeem Rafiq

However, the matter is likely to rumble on even after the official ruling is made. A discipline commission panel will meet at Old Trafford to decide on the issue of 17-year-old academy player Azeem Rafiq playing in the group stages.

The club not only neglected to register the player as a first-teamer with the England and Wales Cricket Board, but it then emerged he does not hold a British passport.

Monday's quarter-final at Durham was postponed minutes before the start after the ECB launched an investigation when the matter came to light.

However, Durham chief executive David Harker has already stressed the club will appeal against any decision by the ECB to rearrange Monday's match.

The only date the ECB have recommended to Durham for a rematch is July 21, the day after the county play a Pro40 League game at Middlesex.

However, there appears to be a precedent for the current situation after Gloucestershire and Worcestershire were ordered to replay a match in which the latter had fielded an ineligible player.

Harker, however, has called for Yorkshire to be thrown out and Durham given a place at Finals Day.

'The only fair outcome now is that we go to the finals, and if it's a result of Yorkshire being kicked out then so be it,' said Harker.

'Any other solution which doesn't have Durham automatically proceeding to the finals day is going to further disadvantage us and that can't be right.'

Yorkshire chief executive Stewart Regan admitted 'the buck stops with me' after taking responsibility for the club's failure to complete the correct paperwork for Rafiq, who was born in Pakistan and moved to England in 2001.

Regan claims the ECB were prepared to backdate the player's registration before they discovered he did not hold a valid passport.

He told BBC Radio 5 Live: 'Ultimately, the buck stops with me. I'm responsible for running the club.'

But asked whether he would consider his position, he countered: 'I don't think making a scapegoat of someone is what this matter is all about.'

Other options open to the disciplinary panel tomorrow include fining Yorkshire and/or reinstating Nottinghamshire or Glamorgan in the competition in their place.

The Welsh county finished third in the Mid/West/Wales table, only missing out on qualification because their fellow third-placed teams had claimed more points.

'If Yorkshire are thrown out then Glamorgan would seize the chance (to replace them) with all the energy we could muster,' said the county's chairman Paul Russell.

Notts have refused to comment other than releasing a statement in which chief executive Derek Brewer said he would follow the disciplinary meeting 'very closely'.

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