The fast Ishant Sharma pitch was fined for violating the Premier League law in the Gujarat Titans match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday, April 6. Sharma was slapped by 25 percent of the fine for his fees for the match and got one point.
IPL announced the decision through a statement on Monday morning, almost 12 hours after the game. Ishant did not have a good time against SRH in Hyderabad and distributed 53 runs in its 4 overs, which was almost 30 percent of the total SRH runs yesterday.
“Ishant Sharma, a pitch, Gujarat Titans, was fined 25 percent of his fees for the match, and also accumulated one Demeritor point for violating the IPL behavior Code during the match of his team against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderab,” said IPL.
“Ishant Sharma admitted to the level of level 1 according to Article 2.2 and accepted the arbitration of the match. For breach of level 1 of the Code, the decision of the Referee match is final and binding,” he added.
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Article 2.2 is part of the Code of BCCI behavior for players and team officials and deals with “abuse of cricket equipment or clothing, ground equipment or accessories and fittings” during the match.
“Article 2.2 includes any actions beyond the course of common cricket events such as hitting or digging goals and any actions that intentionally (ie ie, intentionally), ruthlessly or careless (in both cases, albeit random) And causes damage to the advertising board, ”he reads the rule.
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Ishant is not the first player to be fined this season. So far, a total of 5 players have been punished. In addition to Ishant, Lucknow Spinner Digvesh Rathi, Captain Mumbai Hardik Pandya, Rajasthan Captain Riyan Parag and Lucknow Captain Rishabh Pant this season.
While the captains were fined for maintaining slow excessive excess, Rathi was fined for his repeated laptop celebration in the 2025 season.
While Ishant had a bad day outside, GT was still able to cover SRH in his 4th match. With the victory, GT climbed the second position in the league table with a healthy clean run of +1.031.
Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
April 7, 2025
