India’s opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal was fined 25 per cent of his match fee for having stopped on his way to the pavilion to ‘deal with’ Sri Lanka seam bowler Asitha Fernando and his colleagues who uttered something after the Indian was dismissed in the ongoing second Test in Colombo.

Jaiswal’s turnaround resulted in a physical scuffle between him and Fernando. The ICC penalised Fernando similarly. There is no room for physical contact in cricket; it’s not a contact sport. While acts like these cannot be defended, generally the ICC must penalise the initiator more in some cases. The match referee has access to footage to determine who triggered the incident. It is human to react although the rules say you must not and Jaiswal’s reputation of being impudent is growing.