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By GEOFF LONGLEY - The Press | Monday, 04 February 2008
More ``monkey'' business is afoot in cricket circles, this time after the offensive word that landed Indian Harbhajan Singh in hot water had a sequel in Christchurch premier grade club cricket.
Lancaster Park- Woolston all-rounder Ben McCord was suspended for four matches at a code of conduct hearing late last week after calling Marist batsman Niranjan Nagelswaran a ``f...... monkey''. The incident occurred in a premier grade two-day match two Sundays ago after pace bowler McCord had been hit for a boundary by the young Sri Lankan on his way to a half century.
It was heard by umpire Phil Agent who reported McCord, who is also a Canterbury A player, for abusive language _ not for a racial taunt, which was the charge Harbhajan first faced. Neither Nagelswaran nor fellow bats man Tim Muir heard the words spoken, only hearing McCord mumble something.
The hearing took place before local commissioners Lee Robinson and Peter Doody, who handed down a four-game ban. McCord missed a Canterbury A game last week and will miss three days of club play.
Canterbury Cricket acting chief executive Trudy Anderson yesterday con firmed the suspension.
It is doubtful that McCord would have uttered that word if he had not been aping the comments made by Harbhajan to Andrew Symonds which led to his citing after the second test in Sydney.
McCord's only provision for appeal is legally to the High Court.
It is not the first time in Canterbury a player has been hauled before a hearing for calling an opponent a ``monkey'' with a lower grade player also stood down for an incident.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4386022a18878.html
By GEOFF LONGLEY - The Press | Monday, 04 February 2008
More ``monkey'' business is afoot in cricket circles, this time after the offensive word that landed Indian Harbhajan Singh in hot water had a sequel in Christchurch premier grade club cricket.
Lancaster Park- Woolston all-rounder Ben McCord was suspended for four matches at a code of conduct hearing late last week after calling Marist batsman Niranjan Nagelswaran a ``f...... monkey''. The incident occurred in a premier grade two-day match two Sundays ago after pace bowler McCord had been hit for a boundary by the young Sri Lankan on his way to a half century.
It was heard by umpire Phil Agent who reported McCord, who is also a Canterbury A player, for abusive language _ not for a racial taunt, which was the charge Harbhajan first faced. Neither Nagelswaran nor fellow bats man Tim Muir heard the words spoken, only hearing McCord mumble something.
The hearing took place before local commissioners Lee Robinson and Peter Doody, who handed down a four-game ban. McCord missed a Canterbury A game last week and will miss three days of club play.
Canterbury Cricket acting chief executive Trudy Anderson yesterday con firmed the suspension.
It is doubtful that McCord would have uttered that word if he had not been aping the comments made by Harbhajan to Andrew Symonds which led to his citing after the second test in Sydney.
McCord's only provision for appeal is legally to the High Court.
It is not the first time in Canterbury a player has been hauled before a hearing for calling an opponent a ``monkey'' with a lower grade player also stood down for an incident.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4386022a18878.html
