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McMillan fined for dissent

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New Zealand's Craig McMillan was fined 25% of his match fee and Scott Styris was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council for misconduct during a one-day international against Bangladesh last week.

The match referee Alan Hurst found them guilty after the second one-day international in Dhaka on Friday.

McMillan showed dissent both through his actions and verbally to the umpire Mahbubur Rahman after being dismissed lbw by Aftab Ahmed. Styris, who was later chosen as the man of the series, walked down the pitch to the Bangladesh batsman Mohammad Ashraful and spoke to him in an aggressive manner.

New Zealand won by three wickets and went on to take the series 3-0.

The Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik will consult a bio-mechanics expert in Australia to try to remove perceived flaws in his bowling action.

The umpires Simon Taufel and Aleem Dar, and the match referee Jeff Crowe, reported Malik's bowling action to the ICC after last month's final of the triangular one-day tournament in Lahore.

"He will be proceeding to Australia with the Pakistan team on November 27 and will consult Professor Bruce Elliott at the University of Western Australia in Perth," said the Pakistan Cricket Board's general manager Zakir Khan.

"We have asked Professor Elliott to carry out a technical review of his action, after which we will forward our report to the ICC."

Malik's action had been called into question before, in 2002 in Sharjah. The 22-year-old has been Pakistan's most improved player in recent months, scoring 1,968 runs and taking 80 wickets in 84 one-day internationals and playing in seven Tests.

Shoaib Akhtar and Shabbir Ahmed are other prominent Pakistan bowlers to be reported for suspect bowling actions recently.

The Sri Lanka wicketkeeper Romesh Kaluwitharana has retired from international cricket after missing out on selection for a training squad for next month's tour of New Zealand.

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