Marlon Samuels' ban

ICC commission to review Samuels' ban

Cricinfo staff

June 12, 2008

	Marlon Samuels' fate hangs in the balance while the ICC code of conduct commission conducts its inquiry into his two-year ban © AFP

On May 9, the WICB's disciplinary committee deemed that Samuels had breached section C4 of the ICC's Code of Conduct regulations, which involves receiving money, benefit or other reward which could bring him or the game of cricket into disrepute.

"The official enquiry, headed by Michael Beloff, QC, and two other code of conduct commissioners, will review the finding of the WICB disciplinary committee and decide whether or not the punishment was appropriate," Brian Murgatroyd, the ICC's media and communications manager, told Cricinfo.

"It [the commission] can approve or raise the sanction handed down but as that sanction imposed was the minimum, it does not have the power to reduce the ban."

In their submission to the ICC, Samuels' lawyers, Churchill Neita and Delano Harrison, have included a written statement from Samuels, interviews given by Richie Richardson, who was a member of the West Indies board's disciplinary committee, as well as a letter from Aubrey Bishop, the only dissenter in the committee.

It was reported that, in case the ban is upheld, Samuels' lawyers would file for a judicial review in Antigua in the hopes of gaining an injunction to allow him to play while the case is being deliberated.

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