Ishant banned for one Test

Colombo, September 1 

India’s pace spearhead Ishant Sharma was today suspended for one Test match for breaching ICC's Code of Conduct during the third Test against Sri Lanka where he got into repeated altercations with the opposition players. 

Ishant will thus miss India's first Test against South Africa at Mohali from November 5. Sri Lanka's Dinesh Chandimal has been handed a suspension sentence of one ODI for making deliberate physical contact with Ishant while Lahiru Thirimanne and Dhammika Prasad were fined 50 percent of their match fees.

"In a separate incident, which happened in the first over of Sri Lanka's second innings, Sharma was handed two suspension points for giving a send-off to opener Upul Tharanga", the ICC said in a statement, hours after India clinched a historic Test series win.  — PTI