An unnamed former county cricket coach has been suspended for nine months after admitting charges of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n
The Independent Cricket Discipline Panel found that the man had sent sexually explicit pictures to two female junior members of staff in the summers of 2023 and 2024 and sent numerous \u201cinappropriate and sexualised\u201d text messages, and on another occasion had tried to kiss one of the more junior members of staff.<\/p>\n
The former coach, who was sacked from his job as a result of his behaviour and has not been employed in the sport since, admitted five breaches of professional conduct regulations, including sending unsolicited sexual images to two colleagues.<\/p>\n
The panel decided not to identify the individual due to \u201cexceptional\u201d health-related circumstances and \u201cserious risk of harm\u201d if his name was made public.<\/p>\n
The panel\u2019s report, which set out the findings of their disciplinary hearing, said the second woman was \u201cmuch younger than the respondent and he occupied a far more senior position than she did\u201d at the county cricket club.<\/p>\n
The panel noted that the former coach had \u201capologised for his misconduct and expressed genuine remorse\u201d and that he had voluntarily taken an education course and \u201cworked with a former professional sportswoman to understand the impact of unsolicited explicit messages\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hoped that now he was emerging as a better person,\u201d the report states. \u201cHe had a greater understanding of workplace boundaries, the misuse of social media and what amounted to sexual harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ban is backdated six months to when the charges were served, plus a three-month suspended ban and an order to complete a further mandatory education course. <\/p>\n
The panel\u2019s report concluded that the misconduct was \u201cserious and involved two victims over a period of months. The conduct included the use of social media to express sexual ideations and to send images. The respondent knew of the particular vulnerability of victim 1 and had exploited it and whilst he was not in a formal position of trust to either victim, there was a clear imbalance in his favour given his senior employment position\u201d.<\/p>\n
Chris Haward, managing director of the cricket regulator, said: \u201cThis kind of conduct is unacceptable, where such instances are identified, they will be investigated and those responsible will be held to account. Removing sexual misconduct from the game is a priority for the cricket regulator.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unnamed former county cricket coach has been suspended for nine months after admitting charges of sexual misconduct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-48378","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\/48378","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=48378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}