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Photos of Virat Kohli-Sam Konstas and Tanzim Hasan-Mohammad Nawaz face-offs.© X (previously Twitter)
Lower than a month in the past, star India participant Virat Kohli featured in headlines for a unsuitable cause. The cricket veteran bought concerned in a shoulder-barge with Australia teenager Sam Konstas throughout India’s fourth Check in Melbourne in December 2024. Kohli was fined 20 per cent of his match charge by the Worldwide Cricket Council for the act. An analogous incident came about throughout the Bangladesh Premier League 2024-25 on Sunday. It was Bangladesh pacer Tanzim Hasan Sakib, who did a Kohli by barging shoulders with Pakistan’s Mohammad Nawaz.
Enjoying for Sylhet Strikers within the seventeenth match of BPL at Sylhet Worldwide Cricket Stadium, Tanzim dismissed Khulna Tigers’ Nawaz on the primary ball of the seventeenth over. The pacer outfoxed the Pakistan southpaw with a slower supply outdoors off stump. Nawaz ended up mistiming the ball to the fielder at quick third man.
What adopted was an animated celebration from the Bangladesh pacer. He walked in the direction of Nawaz with some expletives earlier than getting concerned in a shoulder-barge. The umpires and gamers of each the edges shortly intervened to finish the matter.
Watch it right here:
Mohammad Nawaz and Tanzim Hasan Sakib needed to be separated following the previous’s dismissal! #BPLonFanCode pic.twitter.com/Y3l4XDkcfB
— FanCode (@FanCode) January 12, 2025
Speaking concerning the Melbourne Check incident, Kohli and Konstas bumped shoulders whereas transferring throughout the pitch. Each gamers shortly circled to look at one another and have interaction in a heated alternate of phrases with Konstas’ teammate Usman Khawaja stepping in to separate them. The on-field umpires additionally had a phrase with the 2.
After the incident, many former gamers predicted that Kohli could face suspension however that did not occur as he was charged with a Stage 1 offence. Stage 2 offences carry a penalty of three to 4 demerit factors. 4 demerit factors would result in a suspension of 1 Check.
“No formal hearing was needed as Kohli accepted the sanctions propsed by Match Referee Andy Pycroft. On-field umpires Joel Wilson and Michael Gough, third umpire Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid and fourth umpire Shawn Craig levelled the charge,” the ICC mentioned in a launch.
(With PTI Inputs)
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