Former County Coach Suspended For Sexual Misconduct

An unnamed erstwhile region cricket coach has been suspended for 9 months aft admitting charges of intersexual misconduct.

The independent Cricket Discipline Panel recovered nan man had sent sexually definitive pictures to 2 female inferior members of unit successful nan summers of 2023 and 2024.

He admitted 5 breaches of master behaviour regulations, including sending unsolicited intersexual images to 2 colleagues.

The sheet declined to place nan individual owed to "exceptional" health-related circumstances and "serious consequence of harm" if his sanction was made public.

The panel's study said nan 2nd female "was overmuch younger than nan responsive and he occupied a acold much elder position than she did" astatine nan cricket club.

He was sacked arsenic a consequence of his behaviour and has not been employed successful nan athletics since.

In submissions to nan panel, it was noted nan coach had "apologised for his misconduct and expressed genuine remorse".

It said he had voluntarily taken an acquisition people and "worked pinch a erstwhile master sportswoman to understand nan effect of unsolicited definitive messages".

"He hoped that now he was emerging arsenic a amended person," nan study states.

"He had a greater knowing of workplace boundaries, nan misuse of societal media and what amounted to intersexual harassment."

The prohibition is backdated six months to nan charges being served, positive 3 months suspended and a mandatory acquisition people to beryllium completed.

Chris Haward, managing head of nan cricket regulator, said: "This benignant of behaviour is unacceptable.

"Where specified instances are identified they will beryllium investigated and those responsible will beryllium held to account. Removing intersexual misconduct from nan crippled is simply a privilege for nan cricket regulator.

"We recognise that it takes a batch of courageousness for those impacted to travel forward. We are committed to investigating thoroughly and expeditiously erstwhile allegations are raised pinch us, whether existent aliases successful nan past."