Harmanpreet Kaur News / ICC's action on Harmanpreet Kaur - hit the stump hard, ICC suspended

Indian women's cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur has been suspended by the ICC for the next two international matches. The ICC issued a statement on Tuesday giving information about this. The Indian women's team was recently on a tour of Bangladesh, where in the last and third ODI, Harmanpreet hit the stumps expressing displeasure with the umpire's decision. After this, while being photographed with the trophy

Vikrant Shekhawat : Jul 25, 2023, 07:43 PM

Harmanpreet Kaur News: Indian women's cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur has been suspended by the ICC for the next two international matches. The ICC issued a statement on Tuesday giving information about this. The Indian women's team was recently on a tour of Bangladesh, where in the last and third ODI, Harmanpreet hit the stumps expressing displeasure with the umpire's decision. After this, while being photographed with the trophy, he taunted and said that the umpires should also be called. The ICC has said that Harmanpreet has violated the rules.

The ICC has said in its statement that Harmanpreet has been fined 50 per cent for breaching the Level-2 rule. Apart from this, three demerit points have also come on his part. Harmanpreet has been found guilty of Article 2.8 of the ICC Code of Conduct which includes showing disagreement with the umpire's decision.

Fine for this

After the match, when both the teams came to pose for a photo with the trophy, Harmanpreet taunted that he had told them to call the umpires. This has also caused them loss. For this, Harmanpreet has been fined 25 percent of the match fee. This penalty has been imposed due to the offense of Level-1, which includes publicly criticizing the incident in an international match.

Harmanpreet Kaur has been reprimanded for a breach of the ICC Code of Conduct during the third #BANvIND ODI 😯https://t.co/3AYoTq1hV3
— ICC (@ICC) July 25, 2023

Harmanpreet accepted the mistake

According to the ICC statement, Harmanpreet accepted her mistake and accepted the punishment given to her. Therefore, there was no need for any official hearing in this matter and punishment was imposed on them with immediate effect.

The three-match ODI series played between India and Bangladesh was tied 1-1. Bangladesh is not considered a strong team, in such a situation, questions were raised on the game of the Indian team due to the series equalization. Team India raised questions on umpiring in this series. After the third match, Smriti Mandhana had also talked about neutral umpiring.