Ravindra Jadeja was fined 25 per cent of his match price and was additionally awarded a demerit level by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for making use of a soothing cream on his index finger with out informing the on-field umpires. The incident happened throughout Day 2 of the primary Test match between India and Australia when the digicam confirmed that Jadeja took a substance from Mohammed Siraj’s palm and rubbed it onto the index finger of his left hand. While a number of controversy happened over the incident, ICC made it utterly clear that the cream was used for utterly medical causes.

“Ravindra Jadeja was found to have breached Article 2.20 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to displaying conduct that is contrary to the spirit of the game,” the ICC stated on its official web site.

“In reaching his decision to sanction the player along with the Level 1 sanction he imposed, the Match Referee was satisfied that the cream was applied to the finger purely for medical purposes. The cream was not applied as an artificial substance to the ball and consequently, it did not change the condition of the ball, which would have been in breach of clause 41.3 of the ICC playing conditions – Unfair Play – The Match Ball – Changing its Condition,” the web site additional said.

The assertion from ICC debunked the theories put ahead by former cricketers Michael Vaughan and Tim Paine who alleged that the cream may be related to tampering with the situation of the match ball. However, there have been plenty of specialists and former cricketers who got here out in assist of the Indian cricket crew all-rounder and defined that it was only a soothing drugs.