Offender: S Haack
Club: Modbury CC
Date: Saturday, 16th February 2008
Offence: Using offence language and behaving aggressively or derisively towards a batsman upon his dismissal.
Penalty: Three matches (6 weeks) with one match suspended untill the end of the 2009/10 season.

Comments: The player abused a Concordia player when bowling and chased after a Concordia batsman and waved the ball in his face after catching him.

Offender: Scott Alfred
Club: Ingle Farm CC
Date: Saturday, 16th February 2008
Offence: Behaving agressively towards a batsman upon his dismissal and engaging in inappropriate and deliberate physical contact with another player.
Penalty: Three matches (6 weeks) with two suspended until the end of the 2009/10 season.

Comments: The player is found guilty of making an inappropriate comment to a batsman upon his dismissal and then making contact with that player by bumping into him and grabbing his shirt.

Offender: Rocca Calabria
Club: Pooraka CC
Date: Saturday, 16th February 2008
Offence: Engage in inappropriate and deliberate physical contact with another player and threaten to assault another player.
Penalty: Five matches with two suspended.

Comments: The player upon his dismissal and prior to leaving the field engaged in physical contact with an Ingle Farm player. That contact also saw the player threaten physical harm with his cricket bat. The CEP showed some leniency as it considered the incident would not have occured without the actions of the Ingle Farm player.

Offender: Trevor Shepard
Club: Ingle Farm CC
Date: Saturday, 16th February 2008
Offence: Failure to control his players in contravention of ATCA bylaw D34.
Penalty: Reprimand without a game penalty. If a member of his team offends again during either 07/08 or 08/09 season then a one match penalty to be imposed.

Comments: The CEP acknowledges that there was little he could have done to prevent the incident but he is ultimately responsible for the actions of his players.

Offender: Ashley Tharaldson
Club: Gepps Cross CC
Date: Sunday, 10th February 2008
Offence: Bringing the game of cricket into disrepute
Penalty: The player is suspended until 31 January 2009 from all forms of ATCA Competitions.

Comments: The player upon being given out in the 20/20 semi-final proceeded to abuse the umpires and players of the SHOC team. This tirade then continued in the clubrooms and upon his departure from the oval.

Offender: Gepps Cross CC
Club: Gepps Cross CC
Date: Sunday, 10th February 2008
Offence: Bringing the game of cricket into disrepute by the actions of its players and spectators at the 20/20 Final.
Penalty: The club is fined the sum total of $2000. $1500 suspended until conclusion of 209/10 season. Club teams banned from playing home finals at Duncan Fraser until end of 2009/10 season.

Comments: The treatment of the Gepps Cross players and spectators towards the umpires, SHOC and Payneham players during the 20/20 Final was unacceptable and abusive in its nature and continued for the duration of the game. What was of an even greater concern to the ATCA was the apparent lack of action on behalf of the club to reign that behaviour.

Offender: Warren Mitchell
Club: Adelaide HOS
Date: Saturday, 9th February 2008
Offence: Using language that is obscene, offensive or insulting
Penalty: Two matches (a one day game is considered in this case one match) with one game suspended.

Offender: Brad Oakley
Club: Para Hills CC
Date: Sunday, 3rd February 2008
Offence: Using language that is obscene , offensive or insulting towards another player.
Penalty: One match suspended if he writes an apology to both the Captain of the Modbury CC and the Modbury CC itself.

Comments: The player is charged with using offensive language directed towards the Captain of the Modbury CC. One disturbing aspect is that the statements provided seem to indicate that offensive language is used regularly and therefore no report is necessary. This can not be further from the truth and the club officials and adults should be setting a better example and condoning such behaviour.

Offender: Andrew Parkhouse
Club: Adelaide High OS
Date: Saturday, 2nd February 2008
Offence: Abuse of cricket equipement, show dissent at an umpires decision and use language that is obscene, offensive or insulting
Penalty: Two match (4 week) penalty one of those matches to be suspended until the end of the 2008/09 season.

Comments: Player when given out dwelt at crease, upon leaving oval used obscene language and then threw his bat.

Offender: Sanjay Singh
Club: Pembroke
Date: Saturday, 26th January 2008
Offence: Dissent at an umpires decision by action or verbal abuse
Penalty: Two, two day matches with those two matches suspended.