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Indian vice-captain Rahul Dravid tonight has been fined 50 percent of his match fee for a breach of the ICC code of conduct at tonight's VB Series match between India and Zimbabwe at the Gabba.

ICC match referee Clive Lloyd found Dravid guilty of a Level 2 offence and imposed a Level 2 penalty.

Dravid was charged under the ICC Code of Conduct, specifically clause 2.10.

Clause 2.10 refers to: "Changing the condition of the ball in breach of Law 42.3 as read with Standard Test Match and ODI Playing Conditions clause 42.1 (this supplements and does not replace the provisions of the Laws of Cricket and Standard Test Match and ODI Playing Conditions).

Dravid attended a hearing after the match and was subsequently informed of the penalty.

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NSW fast bowler Nathan Bracken yesterday revealed there was a particular English breath-freshener that helped the ball reverse swing.

"It is just a breath mint you put in your mouth but it makes your saliva very sugary and that is being talked about being used over there," Bracken, who has played English county cricket for Gloucestershire, told radio station 2KY.

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Nathan Bracken has backed down from his claim that breath-freshening mints may have aided England's reverse swing.

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MARCUS TRESCOTHICK has sparked a new cheat storm by confessing he used SWEETS to help win matches.

The ex-England batsman (right) and hero of our historic 2005 Ashes win over Australia admits in today’s News of the World that he mixed mints with saliva to shine the ball.

Cricket laws strictly forbid the use of ‘any artificial substance’ and the sport’s ruling body may now launch a ball- tampering probe.

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