West Indies pacer Jayden Seales has been fined 25 per cent of his match price and given one demerit level for a Stage 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct throughout the opening day of the second Check towards India on the Arun Jaitley Stadium. The incident passed off on Friday within the twenty ninth over of India's first innings when Seales, after fielding the ball on his follow-through, threw it at batter Yashasvi Jaiswal and hit him on the pads. An ICC assertion confirmed, “Seales was discovered to have breached Article 2.9 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Gamers and Participant Help Personnel, which pertains to ‘throwing a ball (or every other merchandise of cricket tools) at or close to a participant in an inappropriate and/or harmful method throughout an Worldwide Match'.” The governing physique additional added, “Along with this, one demerit level has been added to Seales' disciplinary document, taking his whole demerit factors to 2 in a 24-month interval.” His earlier demerit level was recorded throughout a Check match towards Bangladesh in December 2024. Seales contested the sanction proposed by match referee Andy Pycroft, which led to a proper listening to. In response to the ICC, “Seales contested that he was making an attempt a run out. However the Match Referee, who referred to replay clips exhibiting the incident from completely different angles, concluded that the throw was pointless and inappropriate, hitting the batter on the pads when he was throughout the crease.” The cost was laid by on-field umpires Richard Illingworth and Paul Reiffel, third umpire Alex Wharf, and fourth umpire Okay.N. Ananthapadmanabhan. The ICC famous that “Stage 1 breaches carry a minimal penalty of an official reprimand, a most penalty of fifty per cent of a participant's match price, and one or two demerit factors.”
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Do you consider Seales' throw was intentional or unintentional?
The incident occurred throughout a dominant begin to India's innings, with Jaiswal on the crease after his fluent double century within the first Check at Ahmedabad. Whereas the throw didn't trigger harm, the match referee dominated it to be “inappropriate conduct” below the sport's disciplinary code.
