Lucknow Super Giant’s Spinner Digveh Singh Rathi was sentenced to a fine of 25% of his match fees and gave a demerit point for his unusual “writing” celebration after rejected the kings’s kings of Punjab Priyansh Arya. The Cricket Control Council in India penalized Rathi to “have violated the IPL code of conduct” during the LSG match against PBKS at the Ekana stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday. PBKS won the match by eight counters.
“Digvesh Singh admitted the level 1 offense under article 2.5 and accepted the sanction of the match referee,” said an IPL media opinion.
“For level 1 violations of the Code of Driving, the decision of the match referee is final and restrictive.” The controversial celebration took place on the penultimate ball of the third during the pbks of 172.
Digvez has launched a short and wide delivery, whichrya tried to shoot without much feet, only to get rid of the ball.
Digvesh Rathi drops an absolute celebration of Banger.pic.twitter.com/kjwra0xwtm
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Shardul Thakur shaped halfway and finished a race.
While Arya returned to the pavilion after having marked eight bullets on nine bullets, Digvesh, his teammate from the Delhi T20 league, imitated by writing a letter – an act apparently directed towards Arya.
The referees took note of the gesture and had a word with the bowling player because he also made immediate comparisons with the Kesrick Williams Antilles stimulator, which popularized the celebration “ `Notebook ” after rejecting the adversaries, including a famous spat against Virat Kohli in a bilateral series of 2019.
The legend of the Sunil Cricket Gavaskar and Mohammed Kaif, while making comments, did not appreciate the antics of Digvezh.
The leg spinner was the choice of the Bowling LSG range, picking 2/30 points in its four overs.
However, the rest of the Bowling LSG attack did not have an impact while the PBKs hunted the target of 173 points in just 16.2 overs.
The victory propelled PBKS in second place in the 2025 IPL point table. PBKS, RCB and DC currently have four points each, after winning their first two games.
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