“The safety and wellbeing of our members remains paramount. The leaders in Australian cricket now need to ensure that every possible measure is taken to ensure things like this never happen again. We have raised this imperative with Cricket Australia.”

There is no criminal investigation.

Samaraweera was contacted for comment. He played seven Tests between 1993 and 1995, and has held various coaching roles with Cricket Victoria dating back to 2008.

In early May this year, Samaraweera was appointed head coach of the Victorian women’s team, but the appointment lasted barely two weeks.

By May 21, he had resigned because CV declined to appoint his brother, fellow former Test cricketer Thilan Samaraweera, as an assistant coach, due to its human resources policies.

“During the recruitment process Dulip had expressed a desire to make a specific coaching appointment in his support team. That appointment was unable to be facilitated due to internal policies we have in place,” Cummins said at the time.

“Following further conversations, Dulip decided he would prefer not to remain in the role.”

A few weeks later, Samaraweera was appointed to a temporary CA role as an assistant coach for a women’s development series due to take place in Queensland. At that point, the player contacted CA’s integrity hotline and Samaraweera was stood down pending the investigation.

CA said in a statement: “The conduct commission found that Samaraweera engaged in inappropriate behaviour that breached section 2.23 of CA’s code of conduct. The allegations of inappropriate conduct took place while Samaraweera was employed by Cricket Victoria.

“The CA integrity department investigates complaints brought to it under integrity codes and policies which also apply to state and territory associations. The conduct commission hears matters referred to it by CA integrity.

“CA and [Cricket Victoria] are committed to providing a safe environment for all players and employees and the welfare of those subjected to mistreatment is paramount. We strongly encourage the reporting of inappropriate behaviours, which can be made directly to the CA integrity unit or via the core integrity hotline.”

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