Sussex have been handed a suspended points penalty after five of their players were charged with showing dissent at umpiring decisions within a 12-month period.
A virtual hearing of the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) took place on Tuesday and imposed a suspended points penalty, which will result in a deduction of 12 points in the County Championship and/or two points in the Royal London Cup and/or two points in the T20 Blast if Sussex players incur a further two fixed-penalty breaches in any competition within the next 12 months.
Sussex admitted the charge and agreed with the CDC's panel that the penalty should be no greater than
that imposed on Nottinghamshire last year, when five of their players committed offences during a five-week period in the T20 Blast.
The panel, chaired by Chris Tickle alongside Amrisha Parathalingam and Paul Joy, also noted that Sussex had taken "steps to address their problem", including a meeting held in March in which "players and coaches discussed dissent and other behavioural issues with the very experienced umpire Ian Gould".