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Manjrekar slams BCCI and ICC for lenient action on Jaiswal and Sooryavanshi
Manjrekar slams BCCI and ICC for lenient action on Jaiswal and Sooryavanshi
Sanjay Manjrekar has criticised the ICC and BCCI for light punishments handed to young Indian batters Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi after separate on-field confrontations in Sri Lanka.
Sanjay Manjrekar has criticised the ICC and BCCI for light punishments handed to young Indian batters Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi after separate on-field confrontations in Sri Lanka.
Jaiswal was fined 25 per cent of his match fee and received one demerit point for a face-to-face clash with Sri Lanka fast bowler Asitha Fernando during the second Test in Colombo. The 15-year-old Sooryavanshi was fined 50 per cent of his match fee for pushing a Sri Lanka A player during a Super Over loss in Dambulla. As A tours are not under the ICC, that penalty was levied by the two boards.
Manjrekar posted on X that letting players get away with such behaviour trains them to repeat it, harming the sport and their own futures.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Times of India leads with Manjrekar's blast and includes his full social media post, framing the punishment as lenient and implicitly backing a stricter line. Sportstar leads with the appeal to be stricter and adds context on jurisdiction, A tours fall under boards, not the ICC, which the other omits. Both report the same facts, neither injects editorial opinion. The material difference is that Sportstar provides a structural explanation for the lighter penalty in Sooryavanshi's case, making the severity gap less a matter of BCCI/ICC softness than of governance. The ICC demerit system escalates with repeats: a third offence within 24 months would trigger a suspension. Whether either young player accumulates that third point is the concrete measure to watch across the 2026-27 season.
Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report), sportstar.thehindu.com (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry.
