Collision with Kontas..!? Fined 20 percent of match fee..!?

In terms of players' behavior, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which has been a bit smooth so far, witnessed the dialogue between the Boxing Day Test, that too between Team India's star batter Virat Kohli. Australian sensation 19-year-old sam Kontas. There were reports that kohli was going to be banned for one match. But what happened in the end? Kontas, who made his international cricket debut in the melbourne Test, batted aggressively. He scored 60 runs off 65 balls with 6 fours and 2 sixes. World number one bowler jasprit bumrah along with Hyderabadi star pacer Mohammad Siraj bowled well. The highlight of Bumrah's bowling was the six he hit. At one stage, kohli became impatient as the bowlers failed to stop Kontas. He tried to seduce Kontas.
After 10 overs of the innings, Kontas was coming from one end to the other end. kohli collided with his shoulder. This led to a small argument between the two. Another opener Khawaja, the umpires came and confirmed both of them. Kohli's treatment of the 19-year-old lad has become a topic of discussion. Intentional collision by a player is a level 2 offense under ICC rules. For this 3 or 4 D merit points will be added to his account. A penalty of 50 percent of the match fee or the full fee will be imposed. If four demerit points are accumulated in 24 months, they will be banned from playing one Test match or two limited-overs matches. kohli is not in t20 anyway. There are no ODIs now. And the opinion was expressed that the test ban is wrong. However, there is not a single de merit point in his account.
If the match referee takes the latest incident seriously and assigns 4 D merit points, the match would have been banned. However, kohli was fined 20 percent of the match fee. He admitted hitting Kontas and was fined. sam Kontas responded about Kohli's collision. No complaint was made against Virat. He said that both of them got a bit emotional. He mentioned that this happens in cricket as he was fixing his gloves which he did not even notice.
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Sowmiya Sriram

26/12/2024 05:40 PM