Font Size -

Symonds could face life ban for hitting streaker

Agencies

Posted online: Tuesday , March 04, 2008 at 1514 hrs IST

Brisbane, March 4:: Controversial Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds could face a serious punishment from the International Cricket Council for man-handling a streaker during the second finals of the cricket tri-series against India in Brisbane on Tuesday.

Symomds, who has been an active participant in the on-field bickerings during India's explosive tour Down Under, was at the non-striker's end when the incident took place.

When the man ran onto the pitch naked, trying to evade the police by approaching in the direction of Symonds, the all rounder leaned onto him in a rugby-style shoulder charge and grounded him in the 10th over of Australia's chase of 259.

If umpires decide to report the incident to the game's world governing body and Symonds is found guilty of breaching the ICC's section 4.2 of the player's code of conduct he could be suspended for five Test matches or 10 ODIs to a life ban.

The section 4.2 relates to a phyical assault of a rival player, an official or a spectator.

The streaker was later escorted out of the field by police and Symonds continued to bat with opener Matthew Hayden.

Ads by Google

Print Email To Editor

Digg

Digg

On Digg, users share intersting online content by submitting links to the site. At that point, the Digg audience can vote on whether or not they think it is interesting. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise up higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages. Another form of social sharing, this site also lets users categorize the content they are submitting to Digg and label it with descriptions of up to 350 characters. Digg users can also submit comments on each content item submitted to the site.

To register, go to: http://digg.com/register

Yahoo

My Yahoo

My Yahoo
My Yahoo allows to cache all text on a page, store a thumbnail view. It also allows both categorization (folders) and tagging of each bookmark.
To register, go to: www.yahoo.com

Fark

Fark

This site is a massive compilation of articles and news submitted by users all around the globe. All the submitted links are available for TotalFark subscribers.
To register, go to: www.fark.com

del.icio.us

del.icio.us

At its most basic level, del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online. Del.icio.us also gives users the ability to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. For example, someone who has bookmarked multiple Web pages that deal with the Washington Nationals baseball team could tag those links with any terms they want, like "baseball," "nationals," "natsfan," etc.

As members of a "social bookmarking" community, del.icio.us sers can also see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections to find other interesting online content.
To register, go to: http://del.icio.us/register

Newsvine

Newsvine

Users can write articles on current news events, save links to external content; vote, comment and chat on article pages created by both users and by journalists.
To register, go to: www.newsvine.com.

Reddit

Reddit

Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and to find articles to recommend to you. Users can also submit comments on items posted to the site.

To register, go to: http://reddit.com/login

Rate this article

Post Comment :

Comments

Hmmmm
by rhea on 2008-03-05 19:33:35.46826+05:30
cooool,, dont mess with BIG BOY SYMONDS,,
Reply | Forword | Report Abuse

roy u should be a cop
by mark on 2008-03-05 19:31:13.727302+05:30
wow !!!! symonds well done tough boy '' at last symonds showed that its every ones issues coz streakers are spoiling the dignity of game ,, if such things happen atleat streakers will think many times before entering the cricket feild
Reply | Forword | Report Abuse

symonds handling streaker
by peter on 2008-03-05 19:26:31.62873+05:30
its good to see andrew symonds handling streaker, atleast when he is not batting well , this should not be takena serious matter as this things can happen ,,after all symonds helped the police officials for handling streakers
Reply | Forword | Report Abuse

Symonds
by Sreenath P on 2008-03-05 17:52:09.520204+05:30
Nothing would happen to Symonds !!! ICC dont have the guts to take any action against Australians.. do they?? If yes, each and every player in the team deserves to get a life ban.
Reply | Forword | Report Abuse

symonds bad boyyyyyyy
by shenoy on 2008-03-05 09:37:21.7678+05:30
symonds again shown his behaviour. why he has done so to the spectopr when poiice is already behind him. he should be given both 5 test and 10 one day ban but not life ban from cricket.symonds is a good cricketer, but he should change his behaviour.spector was an australian, they why he hit him in an rugby manner!!!
Reply | Forword | Report Abuse

Name	*	Message *
Email ID	*
Subject	*

MOST READ

Dhoni back to top of ODI rankings

'Modern cricketing gear make Mendis difficult to crack'

Team India to tour New Zealand after six years

Symonds could face life ban for hitting streaker

Agencies

expresscricket	Web