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Amid heated up confrontation between players of India and England in the third Test at Lord's, India fast bowler Mohammad Siraj was fined 15 per cent of his match fee for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct.
However, former England captain Nasser Hussain believes that the celebration didn't warrant an ICC punishment. Hussain also refused to accept that the shoulder barge was intentional.
"One of the highlights of the Test match, the way India went at Crawley. They (England openers) started 90 seconds later than they should have! They were very street-smart in the way they slowly walked down the stairs, pretending to get lost in the long room. India rightly went at them, and that obviously fired everyone up," said Hussain during a recent interaction.
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"Then, Siraj was fired up. I think he's a better cricketer when he's fired up. You'd love to have Siraj on the side. I didn't think he should've been fined. He went close to the line, he was right in Duckett's face, he didn't barge at Duckett. If anything, Duckett went in that direction to get off the pitch. It wasn't a shoulder barge. I think it's a game of emotions, and you don't need 22 robots. I love the tension," he added.
