FORMER West Indies Test cricketer Collis King was today banned from driving by Canterbury magistrates after testing over the limit for alcohol while visiting the city.

The cricket star of the late 1970s and 1980s, who also played for Glamorgan, Worcestershire and Barbados, pleaded guilty.

King, who lives in York and now works as a cricket trainer and coach, had been playing in Kent when his Toyota Carina was stopped at 12.50am on Wednesday, July 30, in Whitstable Road, Canterbury.

Police Officers had spotted King, 52, wasn't wearing a seatbelt and a rear fog light was on. They smelt intoxicants and performed a roadside test which proved positive, showing up 56 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms.

The magistrates disqualified King from driving for 18 months, fined him £250 and ordered him to pay £55 costs.

He was offered a drink drive rehabilitation course which, if completed, will reduce the length of the ban by four and a half months.