Somerset batsman Jermaine Warner, currently challenging for a spot in the challengers' Cup Match team this year, has landed himself in hot water with Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB).

The veteran cricketer is alleged to have made strong remarks and shown serious dissent towards senior umpire George Francis after being given out leg before during Somerset's July 15 Premier Division clash with Western Stars at Somerset Cricket Club.

Warner is scheduled to appear before the BCB's disciplinary committee tonight to face charges of bringing the game into disrepute and, if found guilty, he could be suspended for Somerset's final Cup Match trial on Saturday.

Earlier this season, the 36-year-old right-handed opening bat smashed a career-best 136 against Flatts at Lords to celebrate his return to the West End following a four-year playing stint at Bailey's Bay.

"I've been putting in a lot of extra physical work and have set myself personal goals and really just want to enjoy my cricket this summer," Warner told last May.

Meanwhile, it was learned yesterday that Bermuda Under-19 all-rounder Chris Douglas has agreed to attend Board- recommended anger management courses.

The talented, yet temperamental, cricketer was sent home early last weekend from the Sir Gary Sobers International Schools Tournament in Barbados for exhibiting unruly behaviour towards team management.

Douglas served a three-match suspension while in the Caribbean but was later summoned home by the Board and will only be permitted to rejoin his Under-19 team-mates for next month's World Cup qualifiers in Toronto should he successfully complete anger management courses.

It is also understood that suspended Western Stars opening batsman Treadwell Gibbons jr could have a lengthy ban reduced should he too complete anger management courses.

Gibbons was slapped with a two-year ban earlier this month for his involvement in a nasty row with BCB director of cricket development Arnold Manders and his wife, Robin, during a June 16 Premier Division clash between hosts Stars and Bermuda Under-19s at St. John's Field.

During the match Gibbons is alleged to have displayed serious dissent at an umpire's decision, used foul language and made gestures that seriously offend, insult, humiliate, intimidate or vilifies another person on the basis of that person's race, religion, colour or ethnic origin towards Manders' wife.

In the wake of Gibbons' punishment, Stars skipper Justin Robinson vowed to appeal against the Board imposed ban.

"I feel that the maximum amount of punishment Tready (Gibbons) should've received was ten games. There's absolutely no way he should've received two -years because I've seen far much worse," Robinson said earlier this month.

"I feel this whole thing was more personal than anything else, and we are going to appeal.