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India’s Virender Sehwag was fined 20% of his match fees for violating the ICC Code of conduct during the final day’s play of the exciting Antigua Test. Sehwag who had a decent outing as an off spinner dismissed West Indian all rounder Dwayne Bravo with a beautiful top spinner and he started to celebrate immediately after he thought Bravo had nicked it behind. There was no looking back for Sehwag that is no looking back at the umpire to appeal for that. The Umpire Asad Rauf, did raise his finger though with a smile on his face. And the smile may have been for Sehwag violating Section 1.5 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players that is “the practice of celebrating a dismissal before the Umpire’s decision has been given”.
On the other Brian Lara was untouched and that raised serious doubts over the double standards employed by the match referee Jeff Crowe. Lara was seen clearly on the screen as snatching the ball from Asad Rauf’s hand during the hold in play for judging Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s dismissal. Lara’s body language showed disrespect to the Umpires and he was forcibly influencing Dhoni to walk off the field. But the West Indian Captain might have got away with any fine as the entire situation was a result of the 3rd Umpire and the two ground umpires’ inability in coming to a decision and also the rareness of that event.