{"id":84901,"date":"2025-08-21T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84901\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:08:15","slug":"proteas-spinner-reported-for-suspect-action-on-odi-debut-as-zampa-punished-for-swearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84901\/","title":{"rendered":"Proteas spinner reported for suspect action on ODI debut as Zampa punished for swearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subrayen\u2019s action has been questioned before. Cricket South Africa deemed it illegal in 2012 before he was cleared in 2013 after adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>He was also reported in 2014 during the Champions League T20 in India and again in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s obviously gone through this process before, many years ago,\u201d Conrad said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prenelan Subrayen bowls against Australia on Tuesday night in Cairns.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e4433bb26e19d1c5c51af7fc6c70d453beed8889d73a5d4a9553965ab43101fb.png\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prenelan Subrayen bowls against Australia on Tuesday night in Cairns.Credit: Fox <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never easy and he\u2019s waited this long to make his debut. We [will] obviously rally around him and make sure that he\u2019s in the best space &#8230; he\u2019s going ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subrayen took the key wicket of Travis Head, which triggered a major collapse and saw Australia lose 6-29 on their way to a surprise 98-run loss.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s other frontline spinner, Keshav Maharaj, took figures of 5-33 in one of the great ODI spells on Australian shores.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Adam Zampa has been reprimanded for the \u201cuse of an audible obscenity\u201d during an incident that took place in the 40th over of South Africa\u2019s innings.<\/p>\n<p>Zampa was heard using \u201cinappropriate language\u201d during his bowling spell.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated after an overthrow, he was heard yelling \u201cf&#8212; me Greeny\u201d in the direction of teammate Cameron Green.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Zampa, who finished with 1-58 from 10 overs, was handed a demerit point but avoided suspension or a fine. It was his first offence in two years, and with the leg-spinner admitting guilt, no hearing was required.<\/p>\n<p>Zampa may feel hard done,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5micv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> given England star Harry Brook escaped a suspension for yelling out<\/a> \u201cf&#8212;ing hell, Washi, get on with it,\u201d at Indian batter Washington Sundar during his side\u2019s recent Test series.<\/p>\n<p>Australia will be eager to bounce back in the second of three ODI matches after slumping to their heaviest defeat on home soil &#8211; in terms of runs \u2013 since 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Australia will attempt to square the three-match series in Mackay, having now lost eight of their past 14 home ODIs against South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subrayen\u2019s action has been questioned before. Cricket South Africa deemed it illegal in 2012 before he was cleared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-84901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}