Friday 9 March 2018 21:07, UK
England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow wants clarity and set guidelines to control sledging on and off the pitch.
Australia vice-captain David Warner claimed a "vile and disgusting" remark about his wife led to his angry altercation with South Africa's Quinton de Kock, which was captured by CCTV in the players' tunnel at Durban last weekend.
Both players have been fined for the incident, which has raised concerns around how sledging and player conduct is monitored in and around the field of play.
Bairstow believes sledging has long been part of the game but now needs to be objectively monitored if retrospective action is to be dealt when incidents are exposed by cameras and stump microphones.
He told Sky Sports News: "Where do you draw the line at personal? Where do you draw the line at swearing? There's so many grey areas with it.
"There's got to be clear guidelines of that. They're not going to sit well with every individual and you don't want to take it to the nth degree where you're taking out the enjoyment for the players or fans."
Bairstow is wary of stump microphones making players vulnerable as only certain comments during matches are displayed to viewers.
"If they're picking up everything said round the bat all the time then they need to be kept on all the time, turning them up and down and people being able to hack into them on different frequencies and get what they want [is not right]," he said.
"It's a difficult thing to have because then you just get people getting stitched up for no reason. If three guys around the bat say 'right we're going to fabricate a story' to make something sound like something has happened for it to then blow up and get on the front pages of the papers then that's not right."
