Players, team official fined by WICB

FIVE players and one team official has been penalised by the West Indies Cricket Board under the Code of Conduct, following the third round of matches in the Professional Cricket League Regional four-day Tournament which ended on Monday.

Players Jonathan Carter of Barbados Pride, Steven Katwaroo and Imran Khan of Trinidad & Tobago Red Force, and Steve Liburd and Sherwin Peters of Leeward Islands Hurricanes, and team official Wendell Coppin, also of Barbados Pride received censures.

Carter was fined 15 per cent of his match fee, after he angrily slammed his bat into a water cooler and the dressing room door in the full public view, when he left the field following his dismissal in the Pride second innings.

Emanating from the same match, Coppin was fined 65 per cent of his match fee for his comments carried in a Barbadian newspaper article and on a Barbadian radio station, questioning the decision-making of the umpires in the match.

Katwaroo was fined 10 per cent of his match fee, after he attempted to bring the game into disrepute by pointing at his elbow and deliberately trying to influence the umpire's decision during an appeal for caught off the fourth ball of the 86th over while he was batting.

Khan was reprimanded and warned for an offence that occurred on the second ball of the 59th over, when umpire Wilson turned down an appeal for caught behind. The leg-spinner proceeded to question the umpire's decision, saying "Umps" and showing the signal that is used when the umpire's decision review protocol is in place.

Liburd was fined 10 per cent of his match fee, after he was penalised for showing dissent at an umpire's decision, when he was given out lbw off the final ball of the 39th over in his side's second innings. The dissent was in the form of a loud roar in obvious disappointment with the umpire's decision.

Peters was reprimanded and warned for conduct contrary to the spirit of the game, when he was dismissed caught behind off the first ball of the fourth over of the Hurricanes' second innings. He slammed his bat against the wall in the presence of the reserve umpire when he was returning to the dressing room.