Kevin Hurdle's international career appears to be over after the Bermuda Cricket Board slapped him with a one-year international ban from the game.

Hurdle has been punished for an altercation he had with team manager Lionel Tannock during the tour of the Caribbean in February, which the team went on to prepare for this month's World Cup qualifiers in South Africa.

According to the BCB Hurdle was caught smoking inside a pavilion by Tannock and after being asked to go outside fired a volley of obscenities in the manager's direction.

The disciplinary committee also gave the Young Men's Social Club player a one-year ban from domestic cricket, however this was reduced to three games on appeal.

"Subsequent to the recent CWCQ preparation tour and the reports from tour management; Kevin Hurdle was found guilty of using obscene, offensive and insulting language to a Team Official," said a BCB statement.

"The Disciplinary Committee levied a penalty of a one-year ban from international and domestic cricket.

"The sentence was appealed and the domestic ban was reduced to a three game suspension. The one-year international ban was confirmed."

Hurdle will be 33 when the ban runs out and given the need for the national team to re-build after the miserable events in South Africa over the past two weeks, it seems extremely unlikely that the injury-prone fast bowler will ever play for his country again.

The ban comes on the back of Hurdle's omission from the squad for the World Cup qualifiers with a groin injury after he failed to prove his fitness in the Caribbean.

Already injured before the tour started, national coach Gus Logie took Hurdle along after the player assured him he was fit. However, Hurdle managed to bowl just six overs, conceding 53 runs, and taking only one wicket on the tour before he broke down again.

At the time, Logie said that despite his disappointment with Hurdle's fitness he believed he still had a future in the national set-up.

"Kevin Hurdle is an individual who we really felt highly of," said Logie. "I don't think it is the end for him, it's up to Kevin.

"At the end of the day I still believe that he could be an asset to Bermuda cricket, once Kevin focuses on getting himself fit. But in the end it is a decision for Kevin himself."