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Follow UsFormer Worcestershire all-rounder, Alex Hepburn, has been slapped with a 10-year suspension from playing in ECB competitions by the Independent Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC).
Cricket Regulator had charged Hepburn with two breaches of ECB Directive 3.3 earlier this year. The first was related to his criminal conviction in 2019 and the other for his participation in a misogynistic Whatsapp group during his playing days for his County in 2017.
Hepburn, now 28 years old, served two years of his five-year sentence in 2019 and was released in October 2021.
“For the first charge, relating to his criminal conviction, Mr Hepburn has been suspended from playing cricket for 10 years, commencing on 30 October 2021,” Cricketer Regulator said in a statement released on Monday.
“Further, before he is permitted to play, coach or undertake any cricket-related activity that falls within the authority of the ECB in the future, he is required to undergo appropriate professional treatment for the issues which led to his criminal conviction (if appropriate with the involvement and oversight of the PCA) and to undertake appropriate training and education courses,” the statement added.
Hepburn played two List A and five T20s for Worcestershire between 2015 and 2017, picking 12 wickets in total (six in each format). Thus, his professional cricket career has been on halt since he was 21.
The hearing in April 2017 heard how he degraded women, including one count of oral molestation in September 216, and rating women in text messages with his teammates.
Cricket Regulator’s statement further added, "Mr Hepburn failed to respond to the charge letter and related communication. As such, the CDC panel reached its decision in his absence. Mr Hepburn has not appealed the CDC panel's decision."
Hepburn has also been placed on the sex offenders register for life.
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