PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Pakistan’s fast bowling duo of Mohammad Abbas and Khurram Shahzad were handed a demerit point each for aggressive celebrations during the first Test against West Indies at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.

Shahzad was also fined 15 per cent of his match fee, while Abbas was handed an official reprimand for breaching Article 2.5 of the International Cricket Council Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to “using language, actions or gestures which disparage or which could provoke an aggressive reaction from a batter upon his/her dismissal”.

Shahzad was fined for celebrating aggressively close to dismissed batter Shai Hope during the 17th over of the West Indies’ second innings, an action deemed capable of provoking an aggressive reaction.