‘England will not back down’, warns Bayliss following Buttler confrontation

England’s coach, Trevor Bayliss, has said that his players “will not back down” in the event of further confrontations, following Jos Buttler’s heated argument with Bangladesh’s fielders during the second ODI on Sunday.

Buttler was reprimanded by the ICC match referee, Javagal Srinath, while two Bangladeshis – the captain Mashrafe Mortaza and Sabbir Rahman – were fined 20 percent of their match fee for “using language, actions or gestures which … could provoke an aggressive reaction”, following Buttler’s dismissal in England’s 34-run defeat at Dhaka.

Tempers remained frayed after the match, with Ben Stokes tweeting his displeasure that one of the Bangladeshi fielders – reportedly Tamim Iqbal – had bumped shoulders with Jonny Bairstow during the post-match handshakes.

While Bayliss said he did not encourage such behaviour from his players, he added that England would not be changing their ways ahead of the series decider in Chittagong on Wednesday – and added that the ICC sanctions were a good indication of where the blame lay for Sunday’s scenes.

“Don’t forget there are always two teams in this type of argument and some of the teams around the world are not quite as pristine as they might like to make out,” he said. “We are not going to back down from anything and certainly we have some characters in the team who will not …

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