Mohammed Siraj Fined 15 Percent Match Fee vs ENG: Indian Cricket Team bowler Mohammed Siraj has been fined 15% of his match fee following an on-field incident with English batter Ben Duckett, which involved a shoulder bump.
Yesterday was Day Four of the third England vs India Test match of the ongoing five-match Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. The game is being played at the ‘Mecca of Cricket’, Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.
Mohammed Siraj Fined 15 Percent Match Fee vs ENG
The home side won the toss and decided to bat first, scoring 387 runs. In response, India was bowled out for the exact total. After three days of cricket, nothing separated the two sides. India got to bowl one over at the end of the third day. That one over generated more sparks than what has happened in the entire series so far.
Jasprit Bumrah bowled the over. And to limit the number of overs the Men in Blue got to bowl at the end of the day, the English batters adopted the time-tested technique of time-wasting. Before the third ball of the over, batter Zak Crawley claimed someone was standing behind the bowler’s arm. Then, after the fifth delivery, he called out the physio after the ball.
All this caused a ruckus between the two teams. The Indian team, amidst growing frustration, started some mild sledging. Indian captain Shubman Gill was in the middle of it all, yelling at Crawley to “grow some balls.”
So, Day Four started with the embers of conflict between the two sides still smouldering. The two English openers scored some quick runs. But then, on the sixth over of the inning, bowled by Siraj, Ben Duckett, playing at 12 runs, pulled a shorter ball straight into the hands of Jasprit Bumrah at mid-wicket.
With the atmosphere still a little heated, Siraj, who is known for showing some fire on the field, roared while looking at Duckett while celebrating the wicket. As the two men crossed paths, their shoulders collided. While many call it an intentional bump by Siraj, some believe that it was an unintentional touch between two heated parties.
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Whatever the case may be, Mohammed Siraj has been fined 15% of his match fee for this match following this incident.
Siraj ended up bowling well in this inning, conceding just 31 runs in 13 overs and taking two wickets, with his second scalp being that of the English captain, Ben Stokes. The England Cricket Team was bowled out for 192 runs in their second innings.
To win this match, India had a target of 193. But before the end of Day Four, the Indian Cricket Team lost four wickets for 58 runs. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal got out for a duck. Karun Nair continues his underwhelming series with 14 runs, captain Shubman Gill failed for a second inning in a row when he got out for six, and night watchman Akash Deep was bowled for one to end the day.
With 135 runs needed and KL Rahul on strike at 33, India has the ball in their court. If they win this match, the visitors will take a 2-1 lead in this England vs India series.
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