Days after Test opener David Warner was fined for an inappropriate tweet, Queensland batsman Chris Lynn has been officially reported by his state body for breaching Cricket Australia’s code of behaviour for his posts on the social media website.
Lynn will learn his fate when he attends a Queensland Cricket hearing on Monday night.
The talented batsman apologised on Thursday for a series of remarks on Twitter concerning assault allegations levelled against NRL player Ben Te’o.
Te’o released a statement on Wednesday saying he had not “acted improperly” after a Brisbane woman said she was left bleeding with a fractured eye socket from an alleged assault by him.
Lynn then sent three tweets that concerned the woman and looked to discredit her allegations, before deleting them.
Given Lynn is not a Cricket Australia contracted player, any sanction must be handed out by his state organisation.
“Lynn is alleged to have breached rule 6: Unbecoming Behaviour regarding posts he made on Twitter on Wednesday night,” a CA statement said on Friday.
“Rule 6 states: Without limiting any other rule, players and officials must not at any time engage in behaviour unbecoming to a representative player or official that could (a) bring them or the game of game into disrepute or (b) be harmful to the interests of cricket.”
It comes the same week CA fined Warner $5750 for an expletive-laden Twitter rant against News Ltd journalists Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn.
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