{"id":398270,"date":"2024-05-29T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=398270"},"modified":"2024-05-29T23:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T23:04:34","slug":"disgraced-slaters-name-officially-wiped-from-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=398270","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced Slater's name officially wiped from history"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\ufefft is now official – disgraced former cricketer Michael Slater<\/a>'s name will be wiped from history in his home city.<\/p>\n

Wagga Wagga City Councillors have voted in favour of changing the name of Michael Slater Oval.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe honour for the former Test batter was unveiled in 2014. The oval is part of the city's Bolton Park sporting complex.<\/p>\n

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Fellow Wagga products and former international cricketers Mark Taylor and Geoff Lawson also have ovals named in their honour in Wagga Wagga – colloquially dubbed "the city of good sports" for its history of producing top athletes.<\/p>\n

\ufeffBut Michael Slater Oval will be no more after councillors voted 4-3 in favour of changing the name.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

The oval will be renamed and the council will reportedly garner public advice on what the new name should be.\ufeff<\/p>\n

The three councillors who voted in favour of keeping the name argued Slater's criminal record should not overwrite his feats on the cricket field.<\/p>\n

Rod Kendall outlined Slater's "diagnosed medical mental health issue" as a reason for keeping the oval name.<\/p>\n

But the other four councillors wanted Slater's name wiped after the 54-year-old was last month refused bail by a Sunshine Coast court as he faces 19 charges relating to domestic violence<\/a>.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Among the charges are allegations of unlawful stalking or intimidation, breaking into a dwelling with intent at night, common assault, assault occasioning bodily harm and choking or suffocation.<\/p>\n

Slater remains behind bars and is due to face court again on Friday.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month councillor Jenny McKinnon posted a photo of the Michael Slater Oval sign<\/a>, where someone had painted over the cricketer's name.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"I've urged Council to change the name of this oval as a matter of urgency," McKinnon wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n

"Glad to see that someone (maybe Council?) has taken some stealth action."\ufeff<\/p>\n

At a meeting last year councillor Dan Hayes called for the oval to be renamed following allegations against Slater.<\/p>\n

"I want to look at ways in which we could be replacing that name with someone more deserving," Hayes said in August.<\/p>\n

"Someone without criminal charges"<\/p>\n

Slater made his Test debut for Australia during the 1993 Ashes.<\/p>\n

He amassed 5312 Test runs in 74 matches and partnered Taylor at the top of the batting order for a number of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\ufefft is now official – disgraced former cricketer Michael Slater's name will be wiped from history in his home city. Wagga Wagga City Councillors have […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398275,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398270\/revisions\/398275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/398272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}