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Cricket Latest South Wales stripped Michael Slater of life membership and Hall of Fame status over his multiple domestic violence offences.
Former Australia cricketer Michael Slater.
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Cricket Latest South Wales has stripped former Australia Test cricketer Michael Slater of his life membership and Hall of Fame status over a series of domestic-violence offences.
Cricket NSW had been deliberating over the matter for months. It confirmed the choice after an strange general meeting on Monday evening. In line with Nine newspapers, members and delegates supported the motion to strip the ex-cricketer of the honours he had held for nearly a decade.
Slater has faced multiple domestic violence cases lately. Since 2016, five women in Latest South Wales have secured protection orders against him.
A Sydney court handed him a two-year community corrections order in 2022 after he admitted to several offences, including common assault and attempted stalking.
Earlier this yr, Slater pleaded guilty to seven domestic violence-related charges — amongst them two counts of choking a lady. The allegations spanned several incidents and included assault, strangulation, burglary, and stalking. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison with a part of the term suspended, but was released after serving greater than a yr in custody attributable to a bail refusal in 2024.
He was inducted into the Cricket NSW Hall of Fame in 2015 and the next yr, awarded a Cricket NSW life membership. Local media said Slater submitted a written plea urging Cricket NSW to permit him to retain his life membership, but was declined.
During his international profession spanning 74 Tests and 42 ODIs from 1993 to 2001, he scored greater than 5,000 runs, including 14 centuries and 21 fifties. After retiring in 2004, he transitioned into commentary, working with Channel 4 within the UK and later with Australia’s Seven Network, which ended its association with him in 2021.
Judge Money delivered a blunt message to Slater through the trial.
“It’s obvious, Mr Slater, that you just are an alcoholic,” Money reportedly said to the Maroochydore District Court. “Your rehabilitation is not going to be easy. Alcoholism is an element of your make-up.”
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