Former Australia batter Mark Waugh and England captain Michael Vaughan has slammed Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) following their “lenient” sanction towards Virat Kohli.
Virat Kohli escaped heavy punishment as he walked away with a 20 per cent tremendous for shoulder-barging 19-year-old Sam Konstas on the opening day of the Boxing Day check match on the Melbourne Cricket Floor.
Mark Waugh mentioned the punishment handed all the way down to Kohli left him shocked.
“It doesn’t matter who you might be, that form of behaviour just isn’t on,” he mentioned on Fox Cricket.
India’s Virat Kohli barges into Australia’s Sam Konstas on Day 1 of the fourth Take a look at between Australia and India on the Melbourne Cricket Floor. (Screengrab through X/@7Cricket)
“He’s extraordinarily fortunate that the penalty was very lenient … he might simply have been deemed a degree two offence.
“It must be no less than 75 per cent [match fee] should you’re going to make it a financial tremendous.
“It might result in one thing extra substantial with the gamers getting concerned or the group getting concerned, should you’re taking part in in a hostile setting.
“You simply can’t make contact, it’s simply not on.”
Michael Vaughan too was shocked to see Kohli getting away so simply.
“I believe Virat may be very fortunate,” he mentioned.
“The altercation yesterday wasn’t a terrific search for him as an individual. To tackle a 19-year-old, who was simply doing what you do on the finish of an over.
“He’s received the identical as what Mohammed Siraj received on the Adelaide Oval, so I believe he’s received away with it there.
“I simply don’t suppose the financial tremendous goes to have an effect on any of the gamers on this period of the sport and it’s extra simply the precedent it units.”
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