He didn't open his mouth when Ponting abused bowler Javagal Srinath in full view of TV cameras during Boxing Day Test in 1999-2000.
However he fined Prasad 35 per cent of his match fees & handed him two-ODI suspension for his celebration after dismissing Michael Slater on the second day of that same Test.
In the previous over, Slater had had a few words with him as he ran a single. So, when Prasad got him in his next over, his reaction was probably something that just happened in the heat of the moment. Prasad went within inches of Slater and pretended to be working out with a punching bag.
MADUGALLE could have taken a similarly stern view of the gesture with which Greg Blewett greeted Sourav Ganguly's wicket in the same match -- the bowler went down on one knee and, with elbow bent, lifted a finger at the batsman in a universally recognisable gesture. But it was ruled as 'boyish exuberance'.
2007-08-01
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