England spinner Moeen Ali has been fined 25 per cent of his match payment and handed one demerit level for utilizing a drying agent on his bowling hand with out the umpires’ permission within the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston.
Moeen, making a comeback to the Test area after being requested to return out of red-ball retirement to switch the injured Jack Leach, breached Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct on Saturday’s second day in Birmingham for an act thought of “contrary to the spirit of the game”.
The incident occurred within the 89th over of Australia’s innings, when Ali sprayed a drying agent on his bowling hand on the boundary edge earlier than approaching to bowl the subsequent over.
He was deemed to have defied umpires’ pre-series directions about gamers not utilizing something on their fingers with out prior approval.
Ali admitted the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by match referee Andy Pycroft, so there was no want for a proper listening to.
But the spray wasn’t used as a synthetic substance on the ball and did not change the situation of the ball, which might have been in breach of the ICC’s “unfair play” guidelines.
“One demerit point has been added to Ali’s disciplinary record, for whom it was the first offence in a 24-month period,” the ICC mentioned in an announcement.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
