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India's version of Andre Nel, Shantakumaran Sreesanth has been fined 50% of his match fees for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the Second Test. Sreesanth was seen deliberately shoulder-barging England Captain Michael Vaughan on the fourth day's play at Trent Bridge which the ICC Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle hasn't taken lightly. The fast bowler was found guilty of breaching the clause 2.4 of the ICC Code of Conduct which is 'inappropriate and deliberate physical contact between players during play'. Sreesanth according to the Match Referee had every opportunity to avoid the collision with Michael Vaughan who was running towards the non striker's end which he didn't.

Sreesanth had an absolutely poor match which saw him lose his run up, rhythm, action and his cool so much so that he ended up with just the one wicket in the first innings to show up for his efforts all through the match. It wasn't just the shoulder-barging issue with Michael Vaughan. Sreesanth also bowled a beamer, which is most likely an accidental one that floored Kevin Pietersen. Sreesanth later confirmed that it was an attempted inswinging yorker that turned out horribly wrong. That infamous beamer was followed with a bouncer which was hurled from round the sticks to Paul Collingwood after what looked to be deliberate overstepping of the bowling crease by more than two feet which is a rarity.

People who had followed the Trent Bridge Test closely would think that the England close-in fielders were successful in the mental disintegration of Sreesanth by calling him as 'Harry Potter'. Sreesanth for a change was batting with his glasses on although he mostly uses contact lenses during matches. The Trent Bridge Test had seen players often crossing the limits of acceptable behaviour. Zaheer Khan while batting got extremely annoyed because of finding some unwanted Jelly Beans at the batting crease which were thrown by some or one of the English fielders behind the stumps. Zaheer had turned around showing his bat to Kevin Pietersen and words were exchanged. Pietersen was heard on the stumps mic saying 'you have got the wrong man'. The Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle has already stated that he will address the Captains of both sides about the desired playing conduct before the start of the final test at The Oval.

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