Gibbons hit with two-year ban
Bermuda Cricket Board have slapped Treadwell Gibbons Jr with a two-year ban for his behaviour in the abandoned First Division game between Leg Trappers and Western Stars earlier this month.
The Stars batsman smashed up a dressing room, physically threatened members of the opposition and his own team's scorer, and verbally abused the umpire during a violent rampage that stunned all those who saw it.
It is the second time that Gibbons has been banned for two years. He received the same punishment in 2007 following a clash with BCB cricket development director Arnold Manders and his wife Robin. That punishment was reduced to a year on appeal.
Gibbons will next be able to play cricket after July 20, 2011.
The cricket board's disciplinary committee have had a busy week dealing with the fallout from the Island's weekend of shame that also saw a game between Devonshire Rec and Willow Cuts abandoned following a fight between father and son, Ricardo and Lamont Brangman. In the Premier Division, a row during Social Club's game against Southampton Rangers saw Social Club's Detroy Smith march onto the pitch and confront umpire Kent Gibbons over the contentious dismissal of his skipper Charlie Marshall.
Smith was charged with five counts ranging from physically assaulting an umpire to using foul and abusive language, after he pretended to wave a yellow card at Gibbons, pulled a set of stumps from the ground and threw the bails away in disgust.
With the entire incident caught on film, Smith might have expected to get longer than the 10-match ban he was given, but the Social Club player had already expressed his remorse for the incident and offered an unqualified apology for his actions when he appeared in front of the committee.
Social Club's captain Kevin Hurdle was also charged over the incident, for failing to control Smith, but the committee decided there was no case to answer and the charge was dismissed.
Brangman, meanwhile, escaped with a five-match ban after being charged with a Level 4 offence of physically assaulting another player, umpire or spectator, and a Level 3 offence of threat of assault of another player, umpire or spectator.
Devonshire's Mackie Crane was also due to be charged with a Level 4 offence but is currently off the Island and his hearing has been postponed until Monday.
By far the most bad-tempered game, however, was the one between Trappers and Stars after which three other players have been banned.
Khiry Furbert, whose refusal to walk having been given out started the chain of events that led to Gibbons' outburst, has been banned for four matches. Furbert took exception to Trappers' fielder Chris Flemming claiming a catch and threatened several Leg Trappers' players with his bat.
The youngster already has a chequered past, having been thrown out of the national team set-up for breaking their rules on acceptable behaviour when he was a member of the under-19s squad.
Flemming was banned for one game and put on probation for the rest of the season for his part in the altercation, as was Stars skipper Justin Robinson.
One other ban was handed out to Bailey's Bay player Calvin Dill, who will miss one match and be put on probation for the rest of the season after being charged with two Level 2 offences. The first was for two counts of deliberate and malicious distraction or obstruction in the field of play, and the second for two counts of using offensive language towards the an umpire.
