Overview

• Umpires Richard Kettleborough, Nitin Menon, Adrian Holdstock and Gregory Brathwaite charged Seales under Level 1 of Article 2.5 after he gestured toward the pavilion on dismissing Pat Cummins in the 55th over
• Match referee Javagal Srinath proposed the sanction, which Seales admitted immediately and avoided a formal hearing
• The penalty deducted 15% of Seales’s match fee and added one demerit point, raising his total to two within 24 months
• Accumulating four demerit points in a 24-month span converts to suspension points, underscoring the risks to Seales’s availability
• Seales’s five-wicket haul in Australia’s first innings set the competitive stage as the first Test at Kensington Oval remains evenly poised