Windies pacer Gabriel to miss second Test against Bangladesh

Waseem Ahmed 20:54 23/11/2018
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  • Gabriel (c) will be suspended for the Mirpur Test.

    West Indies will have to make do without the services of their key pacer Shannon Gabriel in their second Test against Bangladesh after he was served with a one-match suspension by the ICC.

    The Windies quick was sanctioned after he was found guilty of breaching the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel in the ongoing first Test between the two sides at Chattogram.

    Gabriel was punished for ‘inappropriate physical contact’ with Bangladesh batsman Imrul Kayes during the first day of the Test.

    The incident occurred during the eighth over of the Test on Thursday with Gabriel making deliberate contact with Kayes after the Bangladesh batsman looked to take a quick single off his bowling.

    The charges against the Windies bowler were brought forward by on-field umpires Aleem Dar and Richard Illingworth along with third umpire Ruchira Palliyaguruge and fourth official Masudur Rahman.

    Gabriel admitted to the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by match referee David Boon with no formal hearing being required in the matter.

    The pacer was awarded two demerit points for the offence while also being fined 30 per cent of his match fees. This was the second such offence for the Windies bowler in the past 24 months after he had been awarded with three demerit points and fined 50 per cent of his match fees during the Jamaica Test against Pakistan in April last year.

    With the accumulation of two more points on Friday, Gabriel has crossed the four-point threshold which automatically translates to a one-Test suspension.

    As such, Gabriel will be unavailable for the second Test at Mirpur which gets underway on November 30.

    At stumps on day two at Chattogram, the hosts had reached 55-5 in their second innings after 17 wickets fell on Friday. Bangladesh had taken a 78-run lead in the first innings after Windies had been bowled out for 246 in reply to their 324.

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