New Delhi: West Indies quick bowler Jayden Seales was on Sunday fined 25 per cent of his match payment and handed a demerit level by the ICC for breaching its Degree 1 Code of Conduct throughout the opening day of the second Check. in opposition to India right here.
The incident occurred on Friday within the twenty ninth over of India’s first innings, when Seales fielded the ball on his follow-through and threw it at batter Yashaswi Jaiswal, hitting him on the pads.
“Seales was discovered to have breached Article 2.9 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Gamers and Participant Help Personnel, which pertains to ‘throwing a ball (or some other merchandise of cricket gear) at or close to a participant in an inappropriate and/or harmful method throughout an Worldwide Match’,” an ICC media launch acknowledged.
“Along with this, one demerit level has been added to Seales’ disciplinary document, taking his whole demerit factors to 2 in a 24-month interval,” the discharge added.
The earlier demerit level for Seales was in a Check match in opposition to Bangladesh in December 2024.
Seales contested the sanction proposed by match referee Andy Pycroft, so a proper listening to was required.
“Seales contested that he was making an attempt a run out. However the Match Referee, who referred to replay clips exhibiting the incident from totally different angles, concluded that the throw was pointless and inappropriate, hitting the batter on the pads when he was inside the crease,” the ICC launch acknowledged.
On-field umpires Richard Illingworth and Paul Reiffel, third umpire Alex Wharf and fourth umpire KN Ananthapadmanabhan had leveled the cost.
“Degree 1 breaches carry a minimal penalty of an official reprimand, a most penalty of fifty per cent of a participant’s match payment, and one or two demerit factors,” the ICC mentioned.
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