Jos Buttler has come out cautiously in favour of calls for stump mics to be turned off during play after he was heared swearing at Vernon Philander on the field, leading to an ICC sanction.
Buttler was fined 15 per cent of his match fee and handed one demerit point for calling the South Africa all-rounder a “f***ing k***head” during a heated exchange on the fifth afternoon at Cape Town as England hunted victory.
“I fully understand that as role models we have duty to behave in a certain way and I’d like to apologise and I understand that that’s not the way to behave so I take the slap on the wrist and move on,” he said.
The third Test begins at Port Elizabeth on Thursday, January 16.
