{"id":211890,"date":"2025-10-14T04:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211890\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:46:11","slug":"big-bash-star-joel-davies-reported-for-sex-themed-gesture-during-wicket-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211890\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash star Joel Davies reported for sex-themed gesture during wicket celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Big Bash cricketer Joel Davies is facing sanction after giving an opponent a sexually suggestive send-off during a grade cricket match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Davies simulated a sex act after taking a wicket for Manly against Sydney University on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The gesture did not sit well with the Sydney University team. Although the umpires did not report the incident at the time, Davies was later reported by Cricket NSW after they reviewed the footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3mk41m-StyledText eze0guv9\">Sign up to The Nightly&#8217;s newsletters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1r9pdr5-StyledSubText eze0guv8\">Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>By continuing you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thenightly.com.au\/subscription-terms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sevenwestmedia.com.au\/privacy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Davies made his Big Bash debut for the Sydney Thunder during the 2022\u201323 season and has played for the Sydney Sixers over the past two summers, featuring in three games.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/da5026fa8dc090472736776d81d230970e0bec1b.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Davies\u2019s controversial wicket celebration.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Joel Davies\u2019s controversial wicket celebration. Credit: supplied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Bash cricketer Joel Davies is facing sanction after giving an opponent a sexually suggestive send-off during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-211890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}