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March 10, 2001 

KANDY, MAR 9 (UNB/AP) - India's tough match referee Hanumant Singh handed down a suspended four match ban on Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya for arguing after being given out in the second test against England on Friday.

Jayasuriya, who was given out by Sri Lankan umpire Bulathsingala Cooray, was summoned before a disciplinary meeting at the end of the third day's play.

Singh imposed the suspended sentence of two test matches and two one-day internationals for six months and fined Jayasuriya 60 percent of his match fee after listening to his explanation during a lengthy hearing.

Jayasuriya had shown his dissent at his dismissal when he was wrongly adjudged by Cooray to have been caught by Graham Thorpe at third slip when television replays showed he hit Andrew Caddick's delivery into the ground first.

After consulting square-leg umpire Rudi Koertzen to check whether Thorpe had grounded the ball after diving to take the catch, Cooray indicated his decision to Jayasuriya who began his walk back to the dressing room, but stopped halfway.

Jayasuriya then continued his march off, but his frustration got the better of him just as he reached the edge of the playing area when he took off his helmet and threw it over the boundary rope.

He is the fifth Sri Lankan player to be disciplined since the start of the series with Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakarra, Russel Arnold and Mahela Jayawardene all being fined 25 percent of their match fees for excessive appealing during the first test at Galle.