Australia wicket-keeper Matthew Wade has been officially reprimanded and handed one demerit point for a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct in the match against England in Barbados on Saturday. It was the cricketer’s first offence in a 24-month period.
The ICC found Wade to have breached Article 2.8 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to “showing dissent at an Umpire’s decision during an International Match.”
The reprimand traces back to an incident in the 18th over. Here’s how Cricbuzz’s ball-by-ball commentary recorded the incident:
17.3 Adil Rashid to Wade, no run, what has happened here? Wade wants to pull out of this one, makes room outside the leg-stump, but puts his bat in line with the ball, defends it back. Not called a dead-ball and Wade is incredulous at umpire Nitin Menon, but the Indian sticks to his call and it will be a dot. Had he left that, then might have been a dead-ball
On-field umpires Nitin Menon and Joel Wilson, third umpire Asif Yaqoob and fourth umpire Jayaraman Madangopal levelled the charge against Wade, who admitted the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by Andy Pycroft of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees, so there was no need for a formal hearing
