Boucher hearing adjourned

Mark Boucher will have to wait a while longer to discover his fate after Cricket South Africa (CSA) adjourned his disciplinary hearing to a date that is yet to be confirmed.

Boucher appeared before CSA's Disciplinary Commissioner, Michael Kuper SC, at a hearing on Friday after allegations by the board that he had breached the players' code of conduct on five occasions in the course of comments attributed to him in an article published in Business Day earlier in the week.

In the article, Boucher supported Jacques Kallis, who resigned as vice-captain of South Africa after he was excluded from the squad for the Twenty20 World Championship to be staged in South Africa in September.

Boucher was quoted by the newspaper as suggesting there were ulterior motives for his omission: "It is either those who have an issue with him, and have a chip on their shoulders, or those who have ulterior motives." He did not elaborate.