{"id":421725,"date":"2026-02-12T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421725\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:02:08","slug":"umpire-row-costs-mohammad-nabi-as-south-africa-edge-afghanistan-in-double-super-over-epic-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421725\/","title":{"rendered":"Umpire row costs Mohammad Nabi as South Africa edge Afghanistan in double Super Over epic | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nabi-sa-1202-sd.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire row costs Mohammad  Nabi as South Africa edge Afghanistan in double Super Over epic\" title=\"Image credit: T20 World Cup\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Image credit: T20 World Cup NEW DELHI: Veteran Afghanistan all-rounder Mohammad Nabi has been fined 15 percent of his match fee for disobeying an umpire\u2019s instruction during his side\u2019s defeat to South Africa.The incident took place at the start of the 14th over of Afghanistan\u2019s innings, when Nabi became involved in a prolonged argument with the officials over South Africa bowler <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/lungi-ngidi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lungi Ngidi<\/a>\u2019s wrist-band. <\/p>\n<p>T20 World Cup | Jonathan Trott press conference after loss vs South Africa<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNabi was found to have breached Article 2.4 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to \u2018Disobeying an Umpire\u2019s instruction during an International Match,\u2019\u201d an ICC statement read.Along with the fine, one demerit point has been added to Nabi\u2019s disciplinary record, marking his first offence in a 24-month period.\u201cNabi admitted the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by David Gilbert of the ICC International Panel of Match Referees, so there was no need for a formal hearing,\u201d the statement added.The charge was laid by on-field umpires Jayaraman Madanagopal and Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid, along with third umpire Nitin Menon and fourth umpire K.N. Ananthapadmanabhan.South Africa edged a spirited Afghanistan in one of the greatest T20 contests, sealing victory after two Super Overs on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: T20 World Cup NEW DELHI: Veteran Afghanistan all-rounder Mohammad Nabi has been fined 15 percent of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,42891,54301,155329,155330,101,155331,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-421725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-lungi-ngidi","tag-mohammad-nabi","tag-south-africa-vs-afghanistan","tag-south-africa-vs-afghanistan-super-over","tag-sports","tag-t20-world-cup-super-overs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}