Delhi Capitals pacer Rasikh Salam Dar has been reprimanded for his aggressive celebration during his team’s thrilling win over Gujarat Titans in an IPL 2024 match on Wednesday night at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.
Rasikh was the star performer for DC with the ball, finishing with figures of 3/44 from four overs, a spell that included the scalps of B Sai Sudarshan, Shahrukh Khan and R Sai Kishore.
“Dar committed a Level 1 offence under Article 2.5 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct. He admitted to the offence and accepted the Match Referee’s sanction. For Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct, the Match Referee’s decision is final and binding,” read a statement from IPL.
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The Article 2.5 deals with “language, actions or gestures which disparage or which could provoke an aggressive reaction from a another player.”
As per IPL code of conduct, Article 2.5 includes any language, action or gesture used by a Player and directed towards a batter upon his/her dismissal which has the potential to provoke an aggressive reaction from the dismissed batter, whether or not any reaction results, or which could be considered to disparage or demean the dismissed batter, regardless of whether the batter him/herself feels disparaged or demeaned (in other words, a ‘send-off’).
Without limitation, Article 2.5 includes:
(a) excessive celebration directed at and in close proximity to the dismissed batter;
(b) verbally abusing the dismissed batter; and
(c) pointing or gesturing towards the pavilion.
DC emerged victorious by four runs which was their fourth win of the season so far. With that, they have lifted themselves up to the sixth spot on the IPL points table.
For GT, it was their fifth defeat of IPL 2024 and they’ve slipped to the seventh spot now.
Pant threw the ball to Rasikh for the 19th over of the GT innings with the visitors needing 37 to win. The right-arm pacer did concede 18 runs but ended up picking the key wicket of Sai Kishore with the final delivery of the over.
“(Anrich) Nortje was having a tough time. T20 is a funny game, after 14-15 overs the ball was coming on nicely. So we wanted to trust Rasikh, always trust someone who is bowling well in a game. I think it is about instincts as a captain, it will come off sometimes. Happy it worked today,” Pant explained his decision.
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