[Lord Snooty]

So the question has to be, how long have the authorities known about these tweets?
Things like this don't just "come to light".
Yorkshire must've known about them when he was sacked.

Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie said of the situation that "When a player consistently displays behaviour that isn’t professional, there has to be a point in time when you say 'look, this isn’t really working, you’re obviously not that bothered about playing for the club'. That point came, and it was tough" and that "He’s got to learn about his game and about being a professional sportsman. I think there will be a future for him in the professional game, but I think he needs to learn a lot, and I think he can do it."

That was 2014, a couple of years after these tweets. The ECB must have known.
So has he been on one of those awareness courses?
How can it have come to this situation just as he's making his test debut? A debut that looked likely would've led to much more.