Outspoken all-rounder Saleem Mukuddem should discover within 24 hours whether he has been found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute for strongly criticising his one-game World Cup ban.

The former Bermuda international attended his disciplinary hearing at the Bermuda Cricket Board last night — telling The Royal Gazette afterwards he was “satisfied” the three-man committee had given him a fair chance to justify his controversial remarks published in this newspaper last month.

The committee, which consisted of National Sports Centre Trustee Sean Tucker as well as Vincent Hollinsid and Corneal Smith, informed Mukuddem at the end of the 30 minute hearing that they would be passing on their decision to the Board before the end of the evening.

Attempts to contact BCB chief executive Neil Speight were unsuccessful.

“I’m happy with how the hearing went and the three of them seemed to listen quite sympathetically to my explanation,” Mukuddem said.

“They were quite concerned about the harshness of the words I used, but I tried to make them understand the context in which I said those things and why I felt I was justified in being so critical given the way I had been treated.

“They are not members of the Board but were brought in specially to adjudicate on disciplinary matters, so a lot of things I wanted to say about the administrative shortcomings of the Board in general I didn’t think would be appropriate to bring up.

“So now I will just have to wait and see. There is an appeals process if the decision does not go in my favour, but I’m not sure there would be any benefit from taking that route.

“But I felt as if they got an understanding of my grievances about what happened and respected the fact that I had a right to defend myself against what I still believe was an injustice.

“I told them when I left that I hoped they would come to the correct decision given the circumstances and I then can get on with my life.”

Mukuddem was fined and banned for the second game against India in Trinidad on March 15 after skipping an official team function at the British High Commission in Port of Spain.

The Leg Trappers player quit international cricket in disgust after the World Cup, insisting he had been the victim of a “gross overreaction” to a relatively minor offence.

He also claimed the disciplinary process at the World Cup had been deeply flawed and suggested there were many other, arguably greater, infractions in Trinidad by other players which somehow went unpunished.

He also accused team manager Lionel Tannock — who sat on the tour disciplinary committee hours after having a major row with Mukuddem aboard the team bus — of harbouring a grudge against him and being totally “out of his depth” when it came to adequately performing his job.

The Board have insisted all along that the agreed disciplinary process was followed, although they have still not publicly justified the severity of the punishment.