India handed Pakistan a record T20 defeat<\/a> in the regional tournament.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n
The incident occurred after Sana caught and bowled out Shafali Verma in her second over and gestured to the pavilion. Verma scored 12 runs off six balls as India beat Pakistan by seven wickets to remain unbeaten in the competition.<\/p>\n
Sana admitted to her offence, which breached Article 2.5 of the ICC Code of Conduct relating to \u201cusing language, actions or gestures which disparage or which could provoke an aggressive reaction from a batter upon dismissal\u201d.<\/p>\n
Additionally, one demerit point was added to her disciplinary record for her second offence in 24 months. The previous incident occurred during a T20I against Ireland in August 2025.<\/p>\n
According to the ICC\u2019s Code of Conduct, Level 1 breaches carry a minimum penalty of an official reprimand, a maximum penalty of 50 percent of a player\u2019s match fee and one or two demerit points.<\/p>\n
India have cruised through to the semifinals with six points from three matches. Pakistan are looking for a win against Hong Kong on Monday.<\/p>\n
The 50-over world champions have won a record seven Asia Cup titles, most recently in 2022.<\/p>\n
Pakistan have never won the title and have twice finished runners-up to neighbours India, in 2012 and 2016.<\/p>\n
Sana was named Pakistan\u2019s captain in October 2024, becoming the youngest player to lead the women\u2019s cricket team at the age of 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sana gestured towards the pavillion after removing Verma in a caught-and-bowled dismissal in their Asia Cup match. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[1724,64,63,740,1209,12241,15299,588,85,29994],"class_list":["post-883316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-middle-east","tag-pakistan","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883316","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=883316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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