An unnamed former County Cricket coach has been suspended for nine months after admitting charges of sexual misconduct, which includes sending explicit photos to two junior female colleagues.
The independent Cricket Discipline channel issued a sanction after he admitted to five breaches of professional conduct regulations over an incident in 2023 and 2024.
The independent Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP) issued the sanction after he admitted to five breaches of professional conduct regulations over incidents in 2023 and 2024, which included attempting to kiss one of the victims in a club changing room.
The CDP has reasoned “exceptional circumstances regarding the health of that coach and the serious risk of harm” for not naming him when publishing the report.
The CDP issued the coach a nine-month suspension from cricket. Six months of the sanction were backdated to when he was charged and the remainder was suspended for a period of 12 months because he had accepted responsibilty, shown remorse and undergone effective remedial education.
He worked with a former professional sportswoman to understand the impact of unsolicited explicit messages, as well as completing courses on sexual harassment and professional boundaries, the CDP said.
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The Managing director of the Cricket Regulator Chris Haward, said described the miscondut as unacceptable and praised the ‘openess and courage of those who reported’ it.
“Removing sexual misconduct from the game is a priority for the Cricket Regulator,” Haward said. “We recognise that it takes a lot of courage for those impacted to come forward.”
The evidence said that the man “engaged in inappropriate and sexualised messaging’ with one of the victims. He stopped when she asked him to but, some days later sent a further message of a sexualised and inappropriate nature.”
The second victim than the man and had to interact with him as part of her work, also received sexually explicit pictures from him to which she didn’t respond.
The CDP said that the man made limited admissions to allegations initially put to him by the Cricket Regulator, “was clear to the Disciplinary Tribunal that the Respondent was a different person to the one who was initially interviewed”.
The panel heard that the man had undergone counselling over many months. “He hoped that now he was emerging as a better person,” said a report. “He had a greater understanding of workplace boundaries, the misuse of social media and what amounted to sexual harassment.”
