Australia fine O'Keefe for Sydney hotel incident


  • Cricket
  • Monday, 08 Aug 2016

Australia's Steve O'Keefe looks on during the second MCC Spirit of Cricket Twenty20 cricket match against Pakistan at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham July 6, 2010. REUTERS/Philip Brown

(Reuters) - Australian spinner Steve O'Keefe was fined 10,000 Australian dollars (5,845 pounds) by his board following an incident at a Sydney hotel late on Saturday.

"O'Keefe was charged with a breach of Article 2.2.11 of the Code of Behaviour -- conduct unbecoming of a player –- and accepted a fine of 10,000 dollars," Cricket Australia (CA) said in a statement on Monday.

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