HARARE, Dec 1: Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been banned for one match and fined half his match fee after being found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute during Sunday’s one day international.

Match referee Clive Lloyd summoned Shoaib to a hearing after two separate incidents during the match in which he gestured at the crowd and threw a plastic water bottle into the stands. The bottle did not hit any spectators, but struck a wall.

“That is bringing the game into disrepute, and he was on a severe reprimand before for scratching the ball.” Lloyd said. “He will lose his match fee, and he has been banned for one one day international.”

Shoaib had been reprimanded earlier by Lloyd for ball tampering after the first test in Harare last month.