Veteran Brett Lee faces a disciplinary hearing after criticising the New South Wales cricket administration and its chief executive David Gilbert, Cricket Australia said on Friday. Lee is in trouble over comments he made that Anthony Stuart had lost his job as New South Wales coach because he was made the scapegoat for the alleged deficiencies of Gilbert and the Cricket NSW hierarchy.

"I think the blame for a lot of things has been unfairly dumped on Anthony Stuart," Lee, 36, told the Sydney Morning Herald last week. "It should have been at the top, Dave Gilbert. He should've been made to go in my opinion. "Cricket NSW is all about leadership, and while that comes from the coach, it comes from the top, too, and I believe for the last five or six years NSW has seriously dropped the ball."

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