Andrew Symonds sent packing home for drinking problem, to miss World Twenty20

Sutherland also said that Cricket Australia will continue to offer Symonds support, but suggested that his new 12-month contract, which is due to come into effect on July 1, would be reviewed and could be withdrawn. The all-rounder was told that he would only be considered for future Australian sides if he submitted to regular counseling, and abided by the agreement with CA which prohibited him from drinking in public.

Sutherland also said he did not regret giving Symonds a number of chances.

"We've relied on experts who've been working very closely with Andrew," he said. "I don't have any regrets about the approach that Cricket Australia has taken and I don't have any regrets about my support for Andrew along the way. We are where we are and we're moving forward from here."

According to Cricket Australia spokesman, Peter Young, Symonds' latest indiscretion "itself was not major and if it had been any other player it would have been a disciplinary issue that would have happened and the world would have moved on without a hiccup."

But "He's in breach of contract and the disciplinary action is that we've stood him down and brought him home. Broadly speaking, he broke team rules. He broke team rules by going out when he wasn't suppose to, by leaving the hotel without advising where he had gone, all of that is in breach of team rules," Young said, adding that CA's decision was taken in the context of Symonds' previous behavior.

"The concern we had is that it comes out of a long series of indiscretions and it was in breach of some very specific commitments he made before we approved that he undertake this tour to England," he said.