LAST month's Pakistan-Australia Test series was dubbed the Spirit of Cricket tour, but the best example of that spirit has come in an unrelated series.
Sri Lanka Cricket has banned off-spinner Suraj Randiv for one match and fined his teammate Tillakaratne Dilshan his entire match fee after the pair conspired to deny India's Virender Sehwag his century in a one-day tri-series match in Sri Lanka earlier this week.
India was coasting to victory against Sri Lanka in Dambulla, with Sehwag 99 not out and scores level with more than 15 overs remaining, when Randiv overstepped. Sehwag smashed the delivery for six but the shot did not count because the match ended once the umpire called the no-ball.
The day after the match Sri Lanka's board launched the inquiry into whether Randiv had, on the urging of Dilshan, deliberately overstepped. After discovering the no-ball was deliberate, the board meted out the punishments - and reminded captain Kumar Sangakkara of his responsibility to ''ensure repetition of such incidents do not occur''.
Sehwag had earlier used his Twitter account to reveal Randiv had apologised for bowling the no-ball.
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