AP :
England vice captain Ben Stokes was fined and given a demerit point on Saturday for swearing at a fan as he walked off the field after getting out during the final cricket Test against South Africa.
The International Cricket Council said Stokes was charged under its code of conduct for “use of an audible obscenity during an international match.”
The star allrounder was fined 15 percent of his match fee. It was his first demerit point in the last two years. Players who accumulate four disciplinary points in a two-year period are banned.
Stokes accepted the charge and there was no need for a formal hearing, the ICC said.
The incident happened on the first day’s play at the Wanderers on Friday.
Stokes had been dismissed for just 2 and was heading off the field and up the players’ tunnel when he was heard on live TV coverage hurling two expletives in the direction of a fan.
