Middlesex charged after Cricket Regulator investigation

The action comes following reports the club were facing action over alleged inappropriate behaviour by chief financial officer Illa Sharma

Embattled Middlesex have been charged in relation to alleged misconduct by an employee.

A Cricket Regulator investigation has found the club has breached ECB Directive 3.3 which concerns "conduct which is improper or which may be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which may bring the ECB, the game of cricket or any cricketer into disrepute".

Though the individual has not been identified it is believed to relate to allegations of inappropriate behaviour by their chief financial officer Illa Sharma.

Earlier this month, The Daily Telegraph reported that a charge relating to a complaint against Sharma, which took place in 2022, was imminent.

The club released a statement confirming contact had been made with the Cricket Regulator, set up last year after a recommendation containing without the ICEC report, and they were assisting them with enquiries.

Last September, Middlesex were fined £150,000 (£100,000 suspended until October 2025) and a raft of suspended points deductions after being found to have misused funds allocation for pathways and recreational cricket.

Furthermore, Middlesex are also in a bitter dispute with former chief executive Richard Goatley over tens of thousands of pounds of what they allege were inappropriately claimed expenses. Goatley denies the allegations and the police have been enlisted and handed several files of evidence.

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