ST JOHN’S – Four play­ers and one team of­fi­cial have been found guilty of breach­ing the Crick­et West In­dies Code of Con­duct dur­ing the on­go­ing Colo­nial Med­ical In­sur­ance Su­per50 Cup.

The four play­ers are T&T Red Force’s Akeal Ho­sein, Bar­ba­dos Pride’s Jonathan Carter and West In­dies Emerg­ing Play­ers’ Joshua da Sil­va and Keon Hard­ing, while Red Force coach Mervyn Dil­lon was al­so found guilty of a breach.

Four out of the five ad­mit­ted to their of­fences and ac­cept­ed the im­po­si­tion of the pro­posed sanc­tions, so there was no need for for­mal hear­ings.

But in the case of Hard­ing, he was charged with two breach­es in the same game – a Lev­el 1 to which he ad­mit­ted and ac­cept­ed the pro­posed sanc­tion, and a Lev­el 2 which he in­tends to ap­peal.

Ho­sein was re­port­ed by on-field um­pires Gre­go­ry Brath­waite and Christo­pher Wright, TV um­pire Carl Tuck­ett and re­serve um­pire Jonathan Blades for en­ter­ing the field of play af­ter be­ing in­struct­ed not to do so by the on-field um­pires and re­serve um­pire dur­ing the match against the Emerg­ing Play­ers on No­vem­ber 13 at Queen’s Park Oval. The spin­ner was rep­ri­mand­ed by match ref­er­ee Michael Ra­goonath.

Carter was re­port­ed by on-field um­pires Nigel Duguid and Lyn­don Ra­jku­mar and re­serve um­pire Bernard Joseph for a breach af­ter he broke a glass win­dow in his team’s dresis­ng room af­ter be­ing dis­missed dur­ing the Pride’s match against Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons on No­vem­ber 20 at the Cona­ree Crick­et Cen­tre in St Kitts. The Pride cap­tain was fined 10 per cent of his match fee by match ref­er­ee Stew­art Rawl­ins.

Da Sil­va was re­port­ed by on-field um­pires Gre­go­ry Brath­waite and Leslie Reifer Jr and re­serve um­pire Christo­pher Wright af­ter he showed dis­sent at an um­pire’s de­ci­sion dur­ing his team’s match against the Unit­ed States on No­vem­ber 19 at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Trinidad. He was rep­ri­mand­ed by match ref­er­ee Hay­den Bruce.

Hard­ing was first re­port­ed by on-field um­pires Gre­go­ry Brath­waite and Christo­pher Wright, TV um­pire Carl Tuck­ett and re­serve um­pire Jonathan Blades for a breach dur­ing the match against the Unit­ed States on No­vem­ber 19 at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Trinidad. The fast bowler was fined 10 per cent by match ref­er­ee Hay­den Bruce for strik­ing a garbage bin near he en­trance of the play­ers’ en­clo­sure. Aris­ing out of the same in­ci­dent, Hard­ing was al­so re­port­ed and fined 70 per cent by Bruce for show­ing se­ri­ous dis­sent at an um­pire’s de­ci­sion by ac­tion or ver­bal abuse. The um­pires re­port­ed that Hard­ing showed dis­sent when he was dis­missed and al­so struck an ad­ver­tis­ing hoard­ing when he was leav­ing the field.

Dil­lon mean­while was re­port­ed by on-field um­pires Gre­go­ry Brath­waite and Carl Tuck­ett, TV um­pire Leslie Reifer Jr and re­serve um­pire Christo­pher Tay­lor for en­ter­ing the field of play dur­ing the re­fresh­ment break to speak to play­ers dur­ing the match against the Guyana Jaguars on No­vem­ber 8 at Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad, al­though coach­es were not al­lowed to do so. Dil­lon was rep­ri­mand­ed and fined 20 per cent of his match fee by match ref­er­ee Re­on King. (CWI)