The International Cricket Council has reprimanded West Indian pacer, Jayden Seales, for using foul language during the first of the two Tests against Pakistan.
Seales was charged with breaching Level 1 ICC Code of Conduct which includes the breach of Article 2.5 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel. The article states that ‘using language, actions or gestures which disparage, or which could provoke an aggressive reaction from a batter upon his/her dismissal during an International Match.’ The sanction was imposed on the advice of Match Referee Richie Richardson.
The incident occurred in the 70th over of Pakistan's first innings, when the 19-year-old, went too far in his celebration after dismissing Hasan Ali and the on-field umpires Gregory Brathwaite and Joel Wilson didn’t find the behaviour appropriate towards the batsman.
Courtesy of Seales pleading guilty to the offence and accepting the proposed sanction, one demerit point was awarded to him along with an official warning. Four demerit points in 24 month period resulting in a player missing a Test match or two limited-overs games, whichever falls earlier.
"One demerit point has been added to the disciplinary record of Seales, for whom it was the first offence in a 24-month period," ICC said in a statement.
Seales, playing only his third Test, took three wickets in the first innings of the match and has so far taken two in the second innings, where Pakistan are leading by 124 runs with five wickets remaining.