Top all-rounder Janeiro Tucker narrowly escaped being slapped with a $1,000 fine during this year's World Cup in Trinidad, The Royal Gazette can reveal.

According to various sources, the 32-year-old cricketer had match fees docked for the Island's Group B clash with Sri Lanka at Queen's Park Oval last March.

Tucker had sanctions imposed against him for an alleged argument with a night duty manager at the Hilton Hotel in Port of Spain said to have occurred after curfew. The Southampton Rangers stalwart is alleged to have verbally abused the night duty manager who denied the cricketer's wife access to his hotel room and later alerted Bermuda team officials over the incident.

Tucker was eventually let off the hook with what amounted to a slap on the wrist and never charged for breaking curfew — an offence that carries a hefty $1,000 fine according to the BCB's rigid code of conduct.

When contacted yesterday national coach Gus Logie declined to comment on the matter. However, it was also revealed that Tucker's Bermuda team-mates Dean Minors, OJ Pitcher and Delyone Borden, also had sanctions imposed against them during the Islanders' World Cup debut in the Caribbean that predictably ended in three straight defeats.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Minors was fined for showing up late at a team meeting, while Pitcher and Borden were both reprimanded for walking in the team's hotel lobby with alcoholic beverages in their possession.

Retired all-rounder Saleem Mukuddem had the severest punishment imposed upon during the Island's World Cup campaign. The South Africa-born cricketer was fined and banned for one-game after skipping an official team function at the British High Commission.

Tucker, who served a three-game ban earlier this year for unsportsmanlike conduct, was last week handed down a six-match suspension by local cricket's governing body for allegedly swearing at umpire Hector Watson during a domestic league match at Southampton Oval.

The player's club have until today to appeal against the Board's ruling.