Australian batsman Darren Lehmann has accused his employers, Cricket Australia, of not fully supporting him during the Sri Lankan race row incident last year.

Lehmann was banned for five one-day internationals for uttering the worlds "black c..." after he was run out against Sri Lanka in a one-day international match at the Gabba on January 15 last year.

"I was also disappointed at the lack of support, certainly in the public arena, that I received from Cricket Australia," he wrote in his biography Darren Lehmann, Worth the Wait.

"I am not for a second asking them to condone what I did but I thought as I was one of their employees they may have been able to state somewhere during the maelstrom engulfing me that I was a good person with a pretty good record over 15 years.

"They never said it was totally out of character, nor that I had cooperated fully with all the relevant people associated with the investigation and hearing.

"Anger built up in me as I got closer and closer to the rooms and once in there I exploded, in the worst possible way," he wrote.

"The two words I regrettably used were 'black c...'

"... It is not something that I had said before and it certainly isn't something I have said since."

Lehman said he thought the matter was over after he had apologised verbally and by letter to the Sri Lankans - who had heard the outburst - and being reprimanded after play by the match referee Clive Lloyd.

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