New Delhi: Former Australian Test opener Michael Slater has lost his Cricket NSW life membership and his Hall of Fame spot after a string of domestic‑violence incidents. The club confirmed the move at an ordinary general meeting on Monday evening. Months of internal review, driven by Slater’s worsening legal problems, led members and delegates to vote for stripping him of the honours he’d held for almost ten years.
He was inducted into the Cricket NSW Hall of Fame in 2015 and received life membership the next year. When he asked the club in writing to keep that status, Cricket NSW politely refused.
Slater played 74 Tests and 42 ODIs for Australia from 1993 to 2001, but his sports career was marred by convictions in 2022 for domestic‑violence offences against women. Since 2016, five NSW women have pursued protection orders against him. That same year, he got a two‑year community‑corrections sentence from a Sydney court after pleading guilty to common assault and attempted stalking charges.
In April this year, he pleaded guilty to seven domestic‑violence related counts, including two instances of choking a woman. The charges covered assault, strangulation, burglary and stalking across multiple incidents with a single victim. He was sentenced to four years in prison, with part of the term suspended. Despite that sentence, the 55‑year‑old was released after spending over a year in jail following a denied bail in 2024.
During his Test career, Slater amassed over 5,000 runs, with 14 centuries and 21 fifties to his name. After retiring in 2004, he moved into commentary, first with Channel 4 in the UK and later with Australia’s Seven Network, which ended its partnership with him in 2021.
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