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Emerson files case against the ACB

Controversial cricket umpire Ross Emerson, one of the men at the centre of the Sri Lankan chucking controversy, has launched legal action against the Australian Cricket Board.

Emerson has stunned the ACB by launching a defamation case against board chairman Denis Rogers.

"We will be defending it vigorously," ACB chief executive Malcolm Speed told the Courier-Mail yesterday.

The case is scheduled to be heard in the Perth Supreme Court on November 22.

Emerson was stood down from umpiring in February after it was revealed he was on sick leave from his job in the West Australian Ministry of Fair Trading.

In January he called Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing in a one-day game in Adelaide, three years after no-balling the same player in a match in Brisbane.

Last week, Emerson was a party to sending a tape of Pakistan bowler Shoaib Akhtar to the ACB questioning whether Akhtar's slingshot action was legal.

Agencies