Australian Cricketers' Association chief executive Alistair Nicholson has criticised the severity of the ban handed to WBBL player Emily Smith.
Cricket Australia imposed a one-year ban on the Hobart Hurricanes wicketkeeper, with nine months suspended, for posting a team line-up on Instagram about an hour before its official release. In a statement on Monday evening, CA said Smith had accepted the sanction for breaching Article 2.3.2 of the anti-corruption code which prohibits disclosing inside information to any person.
Smith will be unable to participate in any form of cricket for at least three months, ruling the 24-year-old out of the rest of this season's WBBL and WNCL competitions.The incident occurred on November 2 with the Hurricanes scheduled to play Sydney Thunder - although the match in Burnie was washed out without a ball being bowled."Officials are supposed to take away the players' phones.
Yeah, bit rough
What a shame we can’t manage the illegal bookmaking that goes on instead?
A bit heavy handed
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