St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots open­er Evin Lewis and Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers pac­er Ali Khan have been heav­i­ly fined for their al­ter­ca­tion dur­ing their Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League matchup at Warn­er Park, St Kitts, on Tues­day night.

Dur­ing the Su­per Over, where Pa­tri­ots won by 13 runs, Lewis con­front­ed Khan af­ter the third ball, which played to the bound­ary sweep­er, be­cause he felt Khan in­ten­tion­al­ly im­ped­ed him as he was try­ing to go for a sec­ond run, which clear­ly was not on in any event.

Lewis shoved Khan and ex­changed some ver­bal un­pleas­antries and when the pac­er re­fused to back down, the TKR play­ers and the um­pires had to get in­volved. TKR skip­per Kieron Pol­lard even­tu­al­ly had to in­ter­vene, pulling away Lewis, whom he plays with for Trinidad and To­ba­go and calm­ing both play­ers down.

In a re­lease Wednes­day, the CPL said both play­ers had been found in breach of ar­ti­cle 2.2.4 of the code of con­duct, which reg­u­lates in­ap­pro­pri­ate and de­lib­er­ate phys­i­cal con­tact be­tween play­ers dur­ing the course of play. On-field um­pires Leslie Reifer and Shaun George sub­se­quent­ly re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to match ref­er­ee Si­mon Taufel.

When they ap­peared be­fore Taufel both play­ers plead­ed guilty to the charges. Taufel even­tu­al­ly fined Lewis his en­tire match fee while Khan lost 75%, which both play­ers ac­cept­ed.

De­spite Tues­day's loss, the TKR re­mained tied on eight points atop the six-team ta­ble with the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors. How­ev­er, the War­riors have a chance to take over sole lead­er­ship of the ta­ble as they are play­ing the Ja­maica Tallawahs on Wednes­day night in Kingston.