Patto in the Points

Aussie reprimanded for 'excessive appealing’.

Australian Associated Press.

Thursday, 20 April 2017.

PTG 2109-10697.

Australian bowler James Pattinson has been reprimanded by the England and Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) Cricket Discipline Commission for "excessive appealing” during Nottinghamshire's County Championship match against Durham last week.  Pattinson admits he "may have overdone it” by going "on a bit too long” when he was denied an LBW against former England batsman Paul Collingwood, an action that resulted in umpires Peter Hartley and Alex Wharf laying a Level One charge against him.  

Pattinson said on Australian radio on Thursday: "I had Collingwood plumb LBW and the umpire gave it not out.  I think in country cricket you don't get away with as much as you do back home [in Cricket Australia competitions].  It's a bit more strict [here] so I better pull my head in a bit more”.  The ECB said in a statement read the "penalty will remain on [Pattinson’s] record for a period of two years and the accumulation of nine or more penalty points in any two-year period will result in an automatic suspension”.