Cricket: Symonds in strife again as bar shows him the door

Andrew Symonds. Photo / Getty Images

Queensland Cricket has denied allrounder Andrew Symonds engaged in unacceptable behaviour before being asked to leave a Brisbane bar on Sunday night.

QC chief executive Graham Dixon took issue with reports Symonds was shown the door at New Farm's Watt Bar after drinking with his girlfriend and Bulls teammates.

"Based on our inquiries today and information we have received, there was nothing to indicate that what took place was outside of acceptable team boundaries," Dixon said in a statement yesterday.

"The players were out of cricket hours, were in a social group with their partners and conducted themselves responsibly."

Brisbane afternoon newspaper mX alleged the group was asked to leave at about 9pm after Symonds accidentally broke a glass and was stumbling and calling out boisterously to his friends.

But Bulls skipper Chris Simpson, who was at the bar celebrating the end of the Sheffield Shield season, denied Symonds' behaviour was a problem.

"As far as I am concerned, we were responsible across the evening," Simpson said.

"It was a few players and their partners and a chance to have a social catch-up after the season.

"We were enjoying ourselves as a group and when management politely approached us to ask us to finish up, we did so. We left without incident and went home.

"Reports that Andrew broke a glass are wrong and personally I don't consider that he was loud and boisterous.

"If management asked us to leave, then they are well within their rights to ask that of any patron. I've got no issue with that."

It's unclear how the incident is being viewed by Cricket Australia, which delivered a "last chance" warning to Symonds after his last misdemeanour in January.

While recovering from knee surgery, he copped a A$4000 ($5000) fine for calling New Zealand wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum a "lump of shit" in a radio interview while under the influence of alcohol.

Symonds has since been undergoing a second period of counselling, continuing a rehabilitation process which started after the "gone fishing' affair in late August which saw him sent home from a one-day series in Darwin.

The 33-year-old was recalled to the Test team in November.

- AAP