West In­dies fast bowler Shan­non Gabriel has ac­cept­ed his ban from the ICC and will serve it out ac­cord­ing to head coach of the Windies team, Richard Py­bus.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports yes­ter­day, Py­bus said, "Shan­non has ac­cept­ed the penal­ty. He will have to sit out ei­ther two Tests or four One Day match­es."

With the Windies play­ing Eng­land in five One Day In­ter­na­tion­als, Gabriel can­not be se­lect­ed un­til the fifth match. If the Windies had Test match­es be­fore then he would have missed two Test match­es.

He al­so miss­es out on 75 per cent of his match fee and gets three de­mer­it points which push him over the lim­it.

The La Ro­maine play­er is no stranger to reach­ing the match ref­er­ee's door, as he was pre­vi­ous­ly giv­en three de­mer­it points in April 2017 for mak­ing de­lib­er­ate phys­i­cal con­tact with Pak­istan cap­tain Sar­fraz Ahmed and an­oth­er two in No­vem­ber last year against Bangladesh. Hav­ing ac­cu­mu­lat­ed more than four points, he was banned for the fol­low­ing Test in Dha­ka.

He has now reached eight de­mer­it points with­in the same two-year pe­ri­od which con­verts to four sus­pen­sion points, equiv­a­lent to a ban from two Tests or four lim­it­ed-overs in­ter­na­tion­als.

To­wards the end of play on the third day of the third and fi­nal Wis­den Test at the Dar­ren Sam­my Crick­et Ground in St Lu­cia, Root was picked up by the stump mic say­ing to Gabriel: "Don't feel in­sult­ed but there is noth­ing wrong with be­ing gay."

This has pro­voked great sup­port for the York­shire­man back home with a num­ber of groups in the Les­bian, Gay, Bi­sex­u­al and Trans­gen­der (LGBT) com­mu­ni­ty in Britain say­ing that he is a great role mod­el for his re­sponse and sup­port of the LGBT com­mu­ni­ty.

Eng­land won the Test match by 232 runs on the fourth day. How­ev­er, the West In­dies won the Wis­den Tro­phy for the first time in ten years af­ter the team won the se­ries 2-1, fol­low­ing a vic­to­ry by 381 runs in Bar­ba­dos and by 10 wick­ets in An­tigua. West In­dies pac­er Ke­mar Roach was named "Man of the Se­ries".

SCORES

Eng­land 277 all out (Ben Stokes 79, Jos But­tler 67; Ke­mar Roach 4-48, Shan­non Gabriel 2-49, Keemo Paul 2-58, Alzarri Joseph 2-61) and 361-5 de­clared (Joe Root 122, Jose Den­ly 69, Jos But­ter 56, Ben Stokes 48 not out; Shan­non Gabriel 2-95) West In­dies 154 all out (John Camp­bell 41, Shane Dowrich 38; Mark Wood 5-41, Moeen Ali 4-36) and 252 (Ros­ton Chase 102 not out; Alzarri Joseph 34, Ke­mar Roach 29; Jim­my An­der­son 3-27, Moeen Ali 3-99)

SIDE BAR

1. Gabriel was pre­vi­ous­ly giv­en three de­mer­it points in April 2017 for mak­ing de­lib­er­ate phys­i­cal con­tact with Pak­istan cap­tain Sar­fraz Ahmed.

2. Gabriel got an­oth­er two de­mer­it points in 2016 af­ter he had an on-field clash with Bangladesh bats­man Im­rul Kayes.

3. Gabriel missed the Dha­ka Test match af­ter he went past the de­mer­it bar­ri­er in No­vem­ber 2016.

4. Gabriel banned for Two Tests or 4 ODIs af­ter a clash with Joe Root in 2019.

5. Gabriel fined 75 per­cent of his match fees for in­fringe­ment in the St. Lu­cia Test match against Eng­land 2019.

6. He has now reached eight de­mer­it points with­in the same two-year pe­ri­od, which con­verts to four sus­pen­sion points - equiv­a­lent to a ban from two Tests or four lim­it­ed-overs in­ter­na­tion­als.

7. Gabriel was found guilty of breach­ing ar­ti­cle 2.13 of the ICC code of con­duct which re­lates to "per­son­al abuse of a play­er, play­er sup­port per­son­nel, um­pire or match ref­er­ee dur­ing an in­ter­na­tion­al match", fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent with Root.