{"id":45799,"date":"2025-03-13T06:31:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/stuart-macgill-ex-australia-test-cricketer-found-guilty-of-taking-part-in-supply-of-cocaine-cricket-news\/13\/03\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:31:54","slug":"stuart-macgill-ex-australia-test-cricketer-found-guilty-of-taking-part-in-supply-of-cocaine-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/stuart-macgill-ex-australia-test-cricketer-found-guilty-of-taking-part-in-supply-of-cocaine-cricket-news\/13\/03\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart MacGill: Ex-Australia Test cricketer found guilty of taking part in supply of cocaine | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill has been found guilty of taking<br \/>\npart in the supply of cocaine in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old former spin bowler, who played 44 Tests for Australia and took 208 wickets, had pleaded not guilty to a single charge of participating in the supply of a prohibited drug.<\/p>\n<p>The charge related to an April 2021 introduction he made between a cocaine dealer and another person.<\/p>\n<p>A jury in the New South Wales District Court on Thursday heard that while MacGill&#8217;s involvement was limited to the introduction, the dealer also took part in two other alleged supplies.<\/p>\n<p>MacGill is expected to return to court in May to be sentenced.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\">MacGill playing for Australia in a Test against the West Indies in 2008<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The former cricketer made headlines in 2021 when he was allegedly kidnapped, assaulted and threatened with a gun before being released.<\/p>\n<p>New South Wales state police arrested and charged four men in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>MacGill&#8217;s international career from 1988 to 2008 was largely overshadowed by fellow Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, who is second on the list of all-time leading wicket-takers in Test cricket.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/cricket\/news\/12040\/13327622\/stuart-macgill-ex-australia-test-cricketer-found-guilty-of-taking-part-in-supply-of-cocaine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill has been found guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine in Sydney. The 54-year-old<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/stuart-macgill-ex-australia-test-cricketer-found-guilty-of-taking-part-in-supply-of-cocaine-cricket-news\/13\/03\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[6791,571,6790,6789,4790,6788,33,602,749,5812,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45801,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45799\/revisions\/45801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}