{"id":8258,"date":"2024-03-20T14:48:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=424688"},"modified":"2024-03-20T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:18:15","slug":"sri-lankan-captain-kusal-mendis-penalized-for-umpire-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/sri-lankan-captain-kusal-mendis-penalized-for-umpire-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan captain Kusal Mendis penalized for umpire abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s cricket team faced another setback as ODI skipper Kusal Mendis landed in trouble, earning three demerit points and a 50 percent match-fee fine for a Level 2 offence.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred after the third match against Bangladesh when Mendis \u201cabused the umpires while shaking hands with them\u201d at the conclusion of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Mendis\u2019s actions breached article 2.13 of the Code, which deals with \u201cPersonal abuse of a Player, Player Support Personnel, Umpire or Match Referee during an International Match.\u201d Remarkably, this marks Mendis\u2019s first offence within a 24-month period.<\/p>\n<p>Both Mendis and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/wanindu-hasaranga-gets-two-match-ban-soon-after-coming-out-of-test-retirement\/\">Wanindu Hasaranga, who also faced disciplinary action<\/a>, admitted their offences and agreed to the sanctions proposed by Andy Pycroft of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees.<\/p>\n<p>This development adds to Sri Lanka\u2019s challenges as they navigate through a crucial period in international cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s cricket team faced another setback as ODI skipper Kusal Mendis landed in trouble, earning three demerit points and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2565,737],"class_list":["post-8258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-kusal-mendis","tag-sri-lanka"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}