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Jaiswal, Fernando Fined After Heated Colombo Test Altercation
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Asitha Fernando argued during a cricket match in Colombo.
Fernando had just dismissed Jaiswal and gave him an animated send-off.
Jaiswal turned around and walked back toward Fernando.
The two exchanged words and their heads made contact.
Other players quickly separated them.
The ICC said this broke a rule against inappropriate physical contact.
Each player was fined 25 percent of his match fee and received one demerit point.
Neither player was suspended, and both accepted the punishment.
Jaiswal said people should not judge the incident without knowing what Fernando had said.
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Asitha Fernando were each fined 25% of their match fees and given one demerit point.
The incident occurred during the 17th over after Fernando dismissed Jaiswal for 45 in Colombo.
The players exchanged words and made head-to-head contact before teammates intervened.
The ICC found both players guilty of a Level 1 breach of Article 2.12 concerning inappropriate physical contact.
Both players admitted the offences and accepted sanctions proposed by match referee Andy Pycroft, avoiding formal hearings.
- Who
- India batter Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sri Lanka fast bowler Asitha Fernando were sanctioned by the International Cricket Council.
- What
- Both players received a 25% match-fee fine and one demerit point after an on-field confrontation involving head-to-head contact.
- Where
- The confrontation took place at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- When
- The incident happened during the 17th over on the opening day of the second Test; the ICC sanctions were confirmed afterward.
- Why
- The ICC found that both players breached Article 2.12 of its Code of Conduct by making inappropriate physical contact during an international match.
Jaiswal's Context
Accountability For Contact
What triggered the confrontation
Jaiswal's Context
Jaiswal said people should not judge the incident without knowing what Fernando had said, suggesting that the verbal context mattered.
Accountability For Contact
Commentator Harsha Bhogle argued that Jaiswal could have walked away after being dismissed.
Responsibility for approaching
Jaiswal's Context
Reports described Fernando's animated send-off or possible remarks as contributing to Jaiswal's reaction, and Jaiswal said Fernando had crossed the line.
Accountability For Contact
India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak said something may have been said to Jaiswal but acknowledged that Jaiswal should not have moved so close to Fernando.
Physical contact
Jaiswal's Context
Accounts differ over the precise movement leading to contact: some say Fernando moved his head toward Jaiswal, while others describe Jaiswal as walking up or bumping heads with him.
Accountability For Contact
The ICC held both players responsible for inappropriate physical contact and imposed identical penalties.
Key facts
- Penalty
- Jaiswal and Fernando were each fined 25% of their match fee and given one demerit point.
- Dismissal
- Fernando dismissed Jaiswal for 45 during the 17th over of India's first innings.
- Incident
- The players exchanged words and made head-to-head contact before players from both teams intervened.
- ICC rule
- Article 2.12 covers inappropriate physical contact with players, officials, support personnel, or other people during an international match.
- Disciplinary process
- Both players admitted the breaches and accepted sanctions proposed by match referee Andy Pycroft, so no formal hearings were held.
- Previous record
- Neither player had committed an offence or received a demerit point in the preceding 24 months.
- Reported fine amount
- One report calculated Jaiswal's 25% fine as ₹3.75 lakh, based on a reported ₹15 lakh Test-match fee.
Quotes
International Cricket Council
The international cricket governing body that announced the sanctions
“Both players were found to have breached Article 2.12 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to “inappropriate physical contact with a Player, Player Support Personnel, Umpire, Match Referee or any other person (including a spectator during an International Match).” As a result, Jaiswal and Fernando were fined 25 per cent of their match fee and were handed one demerit point each”
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“I think they must have said something to him, and it might have happened in the heat of the moment. Obviously, Jaiswal, I don't think he should have been so close (to Fernando), but that happens when you are in the heat of the moment.”
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Sources
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