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| June 25, 2005 | Saturday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 17, 1426 |
CA says No further action against Symonds
MELBOURNE (Australia), June 24: Cricket Australia said on Friday there would be no further action taken against Andrew Symonds but they would examine further the management of internal team disciplinary issues.
In response to media reports here that Symonds faced further repercussions over his boozy night out in Cardiff, Cricket Australia chairman Bob Merriman said the majority of CA directors wanted no further action taken against Symonds.
The 30-year-old all-rounder, man of the match in Australia’s 57-run one-
day win over England
in Durham Thursday,
was banned for two games and fined for a drinking binge the night before Australia’s shock loss to Bangladesh in Cardiff last weekend.
There were media reports that some CA officials were concerned Symonds may have breached the conditions of his lucrative playing contract.
But Merriman, in London for International Cricket Council meetings, issued a statement late Friday which said there would be no further action against Symonds.
However Merriman said the CA Board would review the formal link which underpins the management of internal team disciplinary issues which has operated since late 2003.
He said the Board would also look at the requirements of the Code of Behaviour and player contracts.
The Australian newspaper Friday said CA was advised of Symonds’ penalty — decided by skipper Ricky Ponting, coach John Buchanan and team man-ager Steve Bernard in Cardiff — after it was handed down.
Symonds, one of the world’s leading one-day cricketers, is said to be on an annual retainer US$156,000.
—Agencies
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