Pandey charged with Code of Conduct breach

India A captain Manish Pandey has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee for an incident during his side's victory over the National Performance Squad on Sunday.

Pandey was given out leg before wicket for 31 midway through the tourists' innings in Townsville when he played back to a delivery from NPS legspinner Mitchell Swepson.

The ball was ruled to have struck the 26-year-old on the pads, before ballooning to Sam Heazlett at first slip, and Umpire Shawn Craig lifted his finger to confirm Pandey's dismissal.

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When dismissed, Pandey gestured with his right hand in the direction of Umpire Craig and remained at his crease for more than 10 seconds before starting his walk off the ground.

Pandey was charged with a breach of the ICC Code of Conduct Article 2.1.5 – showing dissent at an umpire’s decision at an international match – a level 1 offence.

Pandey admitted the offence but challenged the proposed sanction of a fine equal to 30 per cent of his match fee. After a hearing, the Match Referee Peter Marshall reduced the sanction to a fine of 25 per cent, which Pandey accepted.

It was Pandey's first level 1 offence under the ICC's Code of Conduct, which is being utilised for the Quadrangular A series following agreement of all participating countries.

Pandey's dismissal mattered little for the tourists, who went on to post 7-304 from their 50 overs on their way to a 86-run win.

Pandey is well known to Australian audiences having played three matches in India's One Day International series last summer, scoring a match-winning century at the SCG.

And after falling for a duck in India A's series opener against Australia A a week ago, he reposnded with a brilliant unbeaten hundred against South Africa A last Wednesday.

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An aggressive middle-order batsman who averages more than 50 at first-class level, Pandey burst onto the scene in 2009 as a 19-year-old when he became the first Indian to score a century in the Indian Premier League.

Despite strong performances at domestic level since then, including the man-of-the-match award in the 2014 IPL final, Pandey had to wait until July last year to represent his country for the first time.

Pandey is a regular visistor to Australia having also been part of India A's tour here in the winter of 2014.