{"id":228633,"date":"2025-10-20T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228633\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:47:07","slug":"former-head-physio-alex-kountouris-launches-unfair-dismissal-claim-against-governing-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228633\/","title":{"rendered":"Former head physio Alex Kountouris launches unfair dismissal claim against governing body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He later led the development of concussion protocols in Australian cricket following the death of Phillip Hughes in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>During the infamous homework affair in India in 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/how-the-homework-scandal-divided-australian-cricket-20150226-13pcbv.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kountouris advocated for fines rather than suspensions for four players<\/a> &#8211; Shane Watson, Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson, and Usman Khawaja &#8211; who did not complete tasks asked of them by team management. The quartet were excluded from the third Test in Mohali. Australia lost the four-Test series 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>Since Kountouris was made redundant, Cricket Australia has advertised for a head of performance.<\/p>\n<p>According to the job description, the successful candidate will be \u201cresponsible for overseeing the strategic direction, integration, and delivery of sports science, sports medicine and performance technology services across Australian cricket\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The job advertisement said the successful applicant would be Brisbane-based and oversee the support of Australian players with performance analysis, athlete management, fitness, injury prevention and rehabilitation, wellbeing strategies, and performance psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He later led the development of concussion protocols in Australian cricket following the death of Phillip Hughes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-228633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228633","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=228633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}