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The International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Wednesday that it had penalised Pakistan’s Khurram Shahzad and Mohammad Abbas for breaching Level 1 of the ICC code of conduct during the first match of their ICC World Test Championship series against the West Indies in Tarouba.
“Khurram was fined 15 per cent of his match fee and Abbas handed an official reprimand for breaching Article 2.5 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to ‘using language, actions or gestures which disparage or which could provoke an aggressive reaction from a batter upon his/her dismissal during an International Match,’“ the ICC said in a press release.
It added that one demerit point had also been added to the disciplinary records of each of the players, both of whom did not have any previous offences in a 24-month period.
ICC said Khurram was fined for “celebrating aggressively close to dismissed batter Shai Hope during the 17th over of the West Indies’ second innings, an action deemed capable of provoking an aggressive reaction”.
