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FEBRUARY 27, 2013 4:05am

Cricket board to hold hearing over incident

Goulburn Murray Cricket board will hold a hearing tonight following an incident on the weekend after the Moama and Fire Brigade match.

By Geordie Cowan

The Goulburn Murray Cricket board will hold a hearing today concerning an incident involving Moama co-coach Paul Jacobs and cricket umpire Lance Carrington on Saturday.The incident occurred after the match between Moama and Fire Brigade was completed at Moama Recreation Reserve, in which the Flames won a high-scoring encounter by just six runs.

The Riv understands Jacobs approached Carrington and an altercation ensued.

‘‘The association is aware of the incident and we have scheduled a meeting with representatives from Fire Brigade and Moama on Wednesday evening at 6pm,’’ GMC vice-president Colin Price said.

‘‘We will look at what happened and decide what course to pursue.‘‘As far as I’m aware, nothing has been decided at this stage or any official decisions been made.

‘‘The board, being aware that something happened under the auspices of our association, it is not something we would like to see replicated.‘‘We would need to see what happened, why it happened and what will happen.’’

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