Australia rules out action against Martyn
Friday, November 10, 2006 05:45 [IST]
Melbourne: Cricket Australia has ruled out taking any action against Damien Martyn after he apologised for pushing BCCI chief Sharad Pawar during the Champions trophy presentation ceremony in Mumbai. "I would not want anyone jumping to conclusions about players being charged under the code of behaviour. I do not think that is going to happen," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland was quoted as saying in 'Herald Sun' today. Cricket Australia yesterday sent a letter to Pawar apologising for the entire episode which has drawn widespread criticism of the world champions. "It was not a good look. It was an unfortunate set of circumstances in the first place, but I did not like seeing it the first time or the second time," he said. Ricky Ponting have also apologised to Pawar, who attacked the Australian cricket team for behaving in "totally uncivilised" manner on the presentation dais. Ponting rang up Pawar yesterday evening and said there was no intention to misbehave with anyone as all the Australian players respected him. Pawar told Ponting that as it is he had not made an issue of it and the BCCI did not lodge any official protest with Cricket Australia. |