Ronald McGregor, 64, was handed a lifetime ban on attending cricket matches in Scotland earlier this month.
A man who made a racist remark about former Scotland cricket international Majid Haq at a match has been fined £400.
Sheriff Neil Kinnear ordered him to pay a £400 fine plus a £20 victim surcharge when he returned to Greenock Sheriff Court for sentencing on Wednesday. "At this cricket match you made a racial slur in relation to the umpire of a type which is completely unacceptable."Racist comments are not acceptable to society these days, and probably never have been.
He said he would have imposed a £600 fine but reduced it to £400 in recognition of McGregor's early guilty plea.McGregor, 64, a well-known former player in Scottish club cricket, was acting as scorer on the day of the incident, which happened during a WDCU Premiership One match between home club Greenock and Stenhousemuir.
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