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CA penalises spinner Steve O’Keefe for alcohol-related incident
- Updated: April 7, 2017
Steve O’Keefe
Sydney: Left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe, who grabbed headlines for his opening in a recently-concluded Test rubber opposite India, is once again in a news, this time after he was on Friday criminialized for Australia’s domestic One-Day Cup and slapped with a $20,000 excellent in an alcohol-related incident.
O’Keefe has been criminialized for subsequent season’s Matador BBQ’s One-Day Cup and has been slapped with a $20,000 excellent after creation “highly inapt comments”, according to a Cricket Australia (CA) matter .
CA announced on Friday that O’Keefe had been authorised for a turn dual Code of Conduct corruption after a comments while underneath a change of alcohol.
The occurrence occurred after a central ceremonies resolved during a Steve Waugh Medal, a Cricket New South Wales (NSW) end-of-season awards function.
No conference was compulsory after O’Keefe supposed a $20,000 excellent from CA, while Cricket NSW imposed a additional chastisement of incompatible him from preference for subsequent year’s domestic 50-over tournament.
O’Keefe will also bear serve suitable counselling.
“There is no time or place for unsuitable poise from any of a players in Australian Cricket, and we continue to take a zero-tolerance proceed to this,” CA’s conduct of group opening Pat Howard said.
“We’re intensely unhappy this conditions occurred, quite on a behind of a prior incident, and it now overshadows Stephen’s on margin opening on a new debate of India.”
It’s a second time in reduction than a year O’Keefe has landed in prohibited H2O for an alcohol-related incident.
In Aug final year, O’Keefe was handed a $10,000 excellent by CA and released with an Infringement Notice by NSW Police for descent poise and being an released chairman remaining in a closeness of protected premises after a night during a The Steyne Hotel in a beachside suburb of Manly.
That incident, that came after a left-armer had flown home from Australia’s debate of Sri Lanka with a hamstring injury, led to him quitting ethanol for 6 months in a bid to lapse to a Test side.
In a CA statement, O’Keefe voiced distress for his actions.
“At an central Cricket NSW duty we became inebriated and done rarely inapt comments,” a 32-year-old said.
“There is no forgive for this and we take full shortcoming and offer an umbrella apology. we accept a sanctions imposed by Cricket Australia and Cricket NSW and acquire a possibility to accept dilettante counselling.”
“I have a large plea forward and we am dynamic to accommodate it with actions, not only words. To all of a members of a cricket family we adore and honour so much, again, apologies for vouchsafing we down,” he added.