Delhi Capitals opener Prithvi Shaw has been reprimanded and fined 25 per cent of his match-fee for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct throughout their match towards Lucknow Super Giants on the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday.
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“Mr Shaw admitted to the Level 1 offence below Article 2.2 of the IPL Code of Conduct and accepted the sanction,” IPL said in a statement.
“For Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct, the Match Referee’s decision is final and binding.”
Level 1 offence pertains to gestures in direction of umpires or opposition.
DC suffered their fifth misplaced of IPL 2022 on Sunday. Facing Lucknow Super Giants on the Wankhede Stadium, the Rishabh Pant-led outfit fell wanting the goal of 196 by six runs.
LSG batted first and due to glowing fifties from captain KL Rahul (77 off 51) and Deepak Hooda (52 off 34), they posted a difficult 195/3 in 20 overs. For DC, Shardul Thakur took all three wickets.
In reply, DC misplaced each their openers – Shaw (5) and David Warner (3) – cheaply inside three overs. However, Pant and Mitchell Marsh launched a surprising counterattack to rack up 53 runs within the remaining three overs of the Powerplay.
The pair added 60 runs for the third wicket very quickly to put DC’s innings again on monitor earlier than being separated. Marsh fell within the eighth over after having scored 37 off 20 and his departure triggered a slide from which DC didn’t get better.
Pant top-scored with 44 off 30 and Axar Patel later tried his greatest, belting an unbeaten 42 off 24 however DC finally completed with 189/7.
With that win, LSG have now climbed as much as the second spot within the factors desk.
“…we’ve to start out profitable shut matches. We got here shut few video games however we’re dropping it,” DC captain Pant said during a post-match interview.
On the other hand, it was DC’s fifth loss in nine matches and they will be back in action after a three-day break. They next face Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday.
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