Australia and New South Wales pacer Gurinder Sandhu gets reprimanded for showing dissent at an umpiring decision during a match in the JT-One Day Cup on 29th September.
Sandhu who was playing for the New South Wales against Western Australia at the WACA was run-out without scoring, as NSW succumbed to 233/7 while chasing a target of 270. NSW eventually lost the match by nine runs and the fast bowler was charged with Level 1 Offence for misbehaving following the runout decision.
According to the Code of Conduct procedure of Cricket Australia, match referee David Talalla considered the umpire’s report, and the proposed sanction got reprimanded. He fast bowler accepted his mistake and the sanction, and no hearing was required.
Earlier in the day, Sandhu has bagged four wickets by conceding only 57 runs including a sensational final over where he bagged three. Sandhu went wicketless in the following match against Tasmania as NSW’s lost by a huge margin of 102 runs.
The tall fast bowler burst onto the domestic scene in Australia in the year 2012-13 which earned him a call-up to the New South Wales team as a rookie player for the first time. Sandhu impressed all and sundry, and by the end of the summer he had already played for Australia A, and the Prime Minister’s XI and remarkably the fast bowler won the Steve Waugh Medal as the best New South Wales player of the year.
He played only two Sheffield Shield games and four in the Ryobi Cup, but his habit of taking wickets consistently put him in the reckoning. He bagged 14 wickets at a sensational average of 11.85 in the Shield games while he scalped the same number of wickets in the Ryobi Cup at an average of 14.57.
The first Australian cricketer of the Indian ancestry to represent the national team, Sandhu played his first ODI for Australia in 2015 against India and bagged a solitary wicket. His international career came to a standstill after playing his 2nd and final ODI till date against England, but with the Australian team in a rebuilding phase we cannot rule out a comeback for Sandhu.