Dilshan and mahela reprimanded
Birmingham: SSri lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardena have been officially reprimanded for excessive appealing during their Champions Trophy match against New Zealand In Cardiff. According to statement from the ICC, Dilshan and Jayawardena were found to have breached Article 2.1.5 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to "excessive appealing during an international match". The charges were laid by on-field umpires Bruce Oxenford and Rod Tucker, as well as third umpire Ian Gould and fourth umpire Steve Davis. Dilshan and Jayawardena were charged for excessive and prolonged appealing. Both the players pleaded guilty to a level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct and as such the matter was determined by match referee Andy Pycroft.
Ramdin suspended for two matches
london: West Indies wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin was on Monday suspended for two ODIs and also fined 100 per cent of his match fee after he was found guilty of conduct contrary to the spirit of the game in an ICC hearing. Ramdin was charged with wrongly claiming a catch of Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq in their first match of the tournament. Ramdin had pleaded not guilty to the offence and appeared in an ICC hearing, where match referee Chris Board found him guilty. “West Indies’ Denesh Ramdin has been fined 100 per cent of the applicable match fee and suspended for two (2) ODI matches after being found guilty of a level 2 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct during the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 match against Pakistan on Friday,” an ICC statement said.
CSA looking at baseball techniques
Johannesburg: Cricket South Africa (CSA) is looking at the lucrative American baseball system in order to improve on its performance and talent management plans at the domestic level. CSA has sent High Performance Manager Vinnie Barnes, Youth Cricket Manager Niels Momberg and provincial side Highveld lions head coach Geoffrey Toyana to attend the leaders in Performance Conference in New York to study the most competitive and professional sporting environment in the world. “We decided on this because not only will it give Vinnie the opportunity to get up to date with the latest techniques and thinking in the performance aspect of sport but we have also arranged for our delegates to visit the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees baseball franchises,” CSA general manager of cricket Corrie van Zyl said.
sl monks protest against icc
Colombo: Ravana Balaya (Ravana Force), a Buddhist monk nationalist group, today staged a demonstration in front of Sri lanka Cricket (SlC) headquarters here in protest against an ICC faux pas during the opeining ceremony of the Champions Trophy in Cardiff. The group blamed the SlC for its inability to lodge a complaint to the ICC for playing a Hindi song in place of Sri lanka's national at the Champions Trophy opening ceremony last week. PNS/Agencies