Pakistan captain Fatima Sana has been fined 10 per cent of her match price and handed a demerit level for a Degree 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct throughout her aspect’s Ladies’s Asia Cup conflict towards India in Dubai on Saturday.
Fatima was discovered responsible of breaching Article 2.5, which pertains to “utilizing language, actions or gestures which disparage or which may provoke an aggressive response from a batter upon dismissal.” The offence occurred after she dismissed Shafali Verma, when Fatima gestured in direction of the pavilion after finishing the catch.
It was Fatima’s second offence inside a 24-month interval, taking her demerit-point tally to 2. She had beforehand acquired a demerit level throughout a T20I towards Eire in Dublin on August 6, 2025.
Fatima had performed a key position with the ball regardless of Pakistan’s heavy defeat to India, ending with three wickets after India bowled Pakistan out for 55. Shafali, who had began India’s chase aggressively, was Fatima’s first wicket, chipping a easy catch again to the bowler off her sixth supply.
Fatima admitted to the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by match referee Supriya Das, which means no formal listening to was required. Degree 1 breaches carry a minimal penalty of an official reprimand and a most of fifty per cent of a participant’s match price, together with one or two demerit factors.
Pakistan have little time to dwell on their loss to India, with their subsequent Asia Cup fixture towards Hong Kong, China, on Monday. A victory would take them into the semi-finals.
