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- Updated: October 30, 2016
Ben Stokes, the England allrounder, has been fined 15 percent of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the second Test against Bangladesh in Mirpur.
The incident happened during the morning session on Sunday when Stokes ignored the on-field umpires’ requests to stop “verbally engaging” with Bangladesh batsman Sabbir Rahman. The on-field umpires – Kumar Dharmasena and S Ravi – had also advised England captain Alastair Cook of Stokes’ actions but, in the words of the ICC media release, “the player didn’t comply with the instructions”.
Sabbir and Stokes were involved in a heated …