http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SM-Katich-c2543’s disciplinary hearing delayed by Cricket Australia – Cricket News Update
Cricket Australia on Friday, postponed the disciplinary hearing of Simon Katich over his comments over the incumbent Australian skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978, till the first week of December, granting further time to the left-handed
batsman to file a guilty plea.
"We're still awaiting advice on a date and process," said Cricket Australia spokesman Peter Young.
The hearing was initially scheduled for Monday, November 21, but the legal advisor and management of the player asked for more time to prepare their case against the charges of "detrimental public comment", leveled against Katich.
The hearing is now expected to take place on Monday, December 5.
Robert Joske, manager of the player, said that the delay was simply to get more time to prepare the case.
"It's just a scheduling issue. Everyone's keen to get it over and done with," Joske said.
Katich, the 36-year-old opening batsman from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Western-Australia-c865, failed to make a cut for the CA contracted players for 2011-12 season, and there had been speculations that personal enmity between Katich and his skipper Clarke
had led to his axing from the list of centrally contracted players.
The matter was believed to have settled with time but Katich’s comments last month reignited the controversy.
The former Test player of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 had told the reporters on October 29 that he suspects his physical confrontation with Clarke in 2009 played a key role in his axing from the list of nationally-contracted players.
Replying to a query regarding John Inverarity's appointment as the new National Selector, Katich said that it was not only selectors’ decision to axe him from the national side.
"It's pleasing to hear but I think you don't have to be Einstein to figure out that it's not just the selectors that had a part in sending me on my way," Katich had said while talking to the media reporters after scoring a century
during a Sheffield Shield clash against Victoria.
"I mean to be brutally honest obviously what happened in the dressing room here a few years ago didn't help my cause. And obviously the captain and coach are selectors,” he added.
The discarded batsman said it was unlikely that he would ever play again for Australia under http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120’s captaincy.
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