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Melbourne: In a fourth test match aganist Australia in border Gavaskhar trophy in Melburane the Indian better Virat Kholi have been fined of 20 percent of his match fee for his shoulder collosion with debutant Australian better Sam Kontas on Day 01 of test match.
Reports reaching said that Kholi was handed handed these sanctions for delibeterly pushing the Australian better which was assessed by match refree Andy Pyucroft.
The official statemnt by ICC have not come yet in this regard. Kohli is all but certain to be charged under Article 2.12 of the Code of Conduct, which says, “Any form of inappropriate physical contact is prohibited in cricket. Without limitation, players will breach this regulation if they deliberately, recklessly and/or negligently walk or run into or shoulder another player or umpire.”
The incident happened after the 10th over, when Kohli had the ball in hand and changed his walking path to be in a shoulder collision with Konstas, who did not take kindly to it, and exchanged a few words with him. Konstas’ opening partner Usman Khawaja and on-field umpire Michael Gough came up quickly to calm down the situation immediately.
Seeing the Kohli-Konstas shoulder collision left former Australia captain Ricky Ponting displeased.
“Virat walked one whole pitch over to his right and instigated that confrontation. No doubt in my mind whatsoever. I have no doubt that the umpires and the referee will have a good look at that.”
“Fielders should be nowhere near the batsman at that stage. Every fieldsman on the ground knows where the batsmen will congregate and get together. It looked to me that Konstas looked up really late, wouldn’t even know anyone is in front of him.
