South Africa spinner Nonkululeuko Mlaba has been given a reprimand following an incident throughout her facet’s victory over India on the ICC Girls’s ODI World Cup 2025 on Thursday.
The 25-year-old Mlaba has been reprimanded for breaching Degree 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct through the ICC Girls’s ODI World Cup 2025 league match between South towards India on Thursday.
The incident occurred after Mlaba dismissed India batter Harleen Deol through the seventeenth over of the match in Vizag, with the spinner waving goodbye to the opposing participant after she had received her out. Mlaba’s motion has been flagged ‘provocative’.
“Mlaba was discovered to have breached Article 2.5 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Gamers and Participant Assist Personnel, which pertains to “utilizing language, actions or gestures which disparage or which might provoke an aggressive response from a batter upon his/her dismissal throughout an Worldwide Match,” the ICC stated in a press release on Saturday, October 11.
“Along with this, one demerit level has been added to Mlaba’s disciplinary report, for whom it was the primary offense in a 24-month interval,” it added.
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Mlaba admitted the offense and accepted the sanction proposed by Trudy Anderson of the ICC Worldwide Panel of Match Referees, so there was no want for a proper listening to. On-field umpires Jacquline Williams and Kim Cotton, third umpire Candace le Borde and fourth umpire Sue Redfern leveled the cost.
Notably, Degree 1 breaches carry a minimal penalty of an official reprimand, a most penalty of fifty per cent of a participant’s match price, and one or two demerit factors.
Mlaba has been in wonderful type on the Girls’s ODI World Cup 2025 with six wickets from three matches to date. She registered a bowling figures of two/46 towards India in Visakhapatnam.