Rabada is set to miss the rest of the four-test series against Australia after being slapped with a two-test ban.
South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has questioned the integrity of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) demerit system after Proteas paceman Kagiso Rabada was banned for two tests.
Rabada is set to miss the rest of the four-test series against Australia after being slapped with a two-test ban for accumulating enough demerit points to be suspended following incidents involving Warner and Australia captain Steve Smith.
Meanwhile, Australia's David Warner avoided any suspension following his ugly row with Quinton de Kock.
Rabada, was the star of the South Africa's series-levelling victory in Port Elizabeth with 11 wickets. But the pacer was given four demerit points and fined 65 per cent of his match fee. He had earned three points for making physical contact with Smith on day one (watch here), while copping one point for screaming in the face of David Warner during a send-off on the third day of the match.
Du Plessis was not very impressed with the demerit system, saying it was doing test cricket no favours. He also questioned how Rabada brushing shoulders with Smith, after dismissing him, carried the same demerit points as Warner's offence.
The Australian opener and Proteas wicket-keeper batsman Quniton de Kock were charged for bringing the game into disrepute for their scrap after the fourth day of the first test match.
"I think we're just going too far on the sensitive side, because every incident on the cameras is: 'Did you see that? Did you see that? Did you see that?' It's test cricket," he told cricbuzz.com.
"We as a team have got no issues with the way the Australian team play their brand of cricket. It's good for the game of test cricket."
"The charge against KG (Rabada) is a level 2 with three demerit points, and the charge against Davey (Warner) is a level two with three demerit points.
"For me, if you look at those incidents, one is brushing of the shirt, the other is a lot more aggressive. My question was: why are both these incidents labelled the same? For me they are not."
"They call it body contact, we would say it is a shirt being brushed or it was not deliberate. As the match referee mentioned, there are bigger things at play here, that's why he didn't ban Davey Warner and make it a level three offence because it's a series between two big teams. I just asked the same question," he added.
Du Plessis was not very optimistic about challenging the ban against Rabada.
"Our strike rate is zero per cent at the moment with trying to challenge these cases, it will probably stay at zero," du Plessis said.
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