Yashasvi Jaiswal (2L) confronts Sri Lanka’s Asitha Fernando (3L) after his dismissal throughout the first day of the second Check cricket match between Sri Lanka and India on the Sinhalese Sports activities Membership Floor in Colombo on August 23, 2026.
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Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sri Lankan seamer Asitha Fernando had been each fined 25% of their match price for breaching Degree 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct throughout the second Check.
The 2 had been caught up in a heated alternate on the Sinhalese Sports activities Membership Floor on Sunday (August 23, 2026) morning after Jaiswal was dismissed by Asitha. Phrases had been exchanged; each stood too shut and confronted one another earlier than different gamers pulled them away. At the same time as the 2 team-managements downplayed the incident, the ICC stepped in and imposed the punishment.
In an announcement, the ICC said: “Each gamers had been discovered to have breached Article 2.12 of the ICC Code of Conduct, which pertains to ‘inappropriate bodily contact with a Participant, Participant Assist Personnel, Umpire, Match Referee or every other individual. Along with this (the high quality), one demerit level every has been added to the disciplinary data of (Asitha) Fernando and Jaiswal. Each gamers admitted the offences and accepted the sanctions proposed by Andy Pycroft (match-referee).”
Printed – August 24, 2026 03:32 pm IST
