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Craig HillAndrew Symonds Fined $4,000
January 30th 2009 07:12
Andrew Symonds has fully accepted his fine for derogatory remarks about Brendan McCullum on a satirical FM radio program, and reiterated his sincere apology to the New Zealand wicket-keeper batsman.
Symonds was fined $4000 by Cricket Australia code of conduct commissioner Gordon Lewis following a hearing at CA headquarters in Melbourne on Thursday.
Symonds pleaded guilty to the breach at the hearing which lasted more than two hours.
In a prepared statement, Symonds said he was pleased the commissioner determined the penalty - which is $1750 less than the maximum penalty for a breach of the code for detrimental conduct - based on the full 14-minute interview with Roy and HG on Triple M rather than the comment that received extensive coverage.
Symonds made the offending comment when discussing McCullum's recruitment by New South Wales to contest last Saturday's final of the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash against Victoria.
"Whilst the comments were intended to be light-hearted, I acknowledge that they were careless and, as such, I accept the fine that I have received today," Symonds said.
"I want to again apologise to Brendon McCullum for my comments and thank him for his understanding."
"I want to reinforce that I remain committed to Cricket Australia and Queensland Cricket and I look forward to putting this matter behind me so that I can focus on my cricket."
Symonds' future is expected to be discussed at a meeting of the Cricket Australia board scheduled for next Tuesday.
Symonds was fined $4000 by Cricket Australia code of conduct commissioner Gordon Lewis following a hearing at CA headquarters in Melbourne on Thursday.
Symonds pleaded guilty to the breach at the hearing which lasted more than two hours.
In a prepared statement, Symonds said he was pleased the commissioner determined the penalty - which is $1750 less than the maximum penalty for a breach of the code for detrimental conduct - based on the full 14-minute interview with Roy and HG on Triple M rather than the comment that received extensive coverage.
Symonds made the offending comment when discussing McCullum's recruitment by New South Wales to contest last Saturday's final of the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash against Victoria.
"Whilst the comments were intended to be light-hearted, I acknowledge that they were careless and, as such, I accept the fine that I have received today," Symonds said.
"I want to again apologise to Brendon McCullum for my comments and thank him for his understanding."
"I want to reinforce that I remain committed to Cricket Australia and Queensland Cricket and I look forward to putting this matter behind me so that I can focus on my cricket."
Symonds' future is expected to be discussed at a meeting of the Cricket Australia board scheduled for next Tuesday.
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