Cork faces disciplinary hearing

Derbyshire's captain, Dominic Cork, will appear before an England & Wales Cricket Board disciplinary panel on July 14, after hitting out at what he described as a "culture of cheating" in cricket, following his side's acrimonious elimination from the Twenty20 Cup.

Derbyshire missed out on a place in the semi-finals when they lost their final group game by one run to Leicestershire. That would have been the end of the matter, had it not been for an incident on the boundary edge, when Leicestershire's Brad Hodge took a catch then stepped over the boundary rope in his follow-through. Derbyshire lodged a protest immediately after the game, but the ECB refused to reverse the result.

Cork claimed the spirit of cricket had been "soiled" by the incident, and told the Daily Mail: "I blame the win-at-all-costs culture of cheating which is taking cricket down the road that has made football such a sleazy game. In football it's diving, shirt-pulling, conning refs and feigning injury. In cricket, it is claiming catches on the bounce, pretending that the ball hasn't gone over the rope and players standing their ground when they've thick-edged it to slip."

Both Cork and Derbyshire refused to comment further until the outcome of the hearing.