DC skipper Rishabh Pant was fined 100 per cent of his match fee, while assistant coach Pravin Amre was got banned for 1 match for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct during the 15-run loss to RR, as per PTI.?
Shardul Thakur was also penalised 50 per cent of his match-fees, according to an IPL release.?
Needing 36 runs from 6 balls, Rovman Powell hit three consecutive sixes. The 3rd ball was a hip-high full-toss.?
With 18 needed from 3, the DC camp demanded that the third ball be called a no-ball. Pant asked his batters to walk out and assistant coach Amre came onto the field to speak to the umpire.?
Pant admitted to the "Level 2 offence" under Article 2.7 of the IPL Code of Conduct and "accepted the sanction".?
Thakur also accepted the sanction for the "Level 2 offence under Article 2.8" of the IPL Code of Conduct and accepted the sanction.?
Amre too "admitted to the Level 2 offence under Article 2.2 of the IPL Code of Conduct and accepted the sanction."?
It all began with Kuldeep, the non-striker, gesturing to the umpires to check for a possible no-ball due to height. Powell joined but the umpires said it was a legal delivery.?
Pant was angry and called Kuldeep and Powell back, while assistant coach Shane Watson tried to reason with him.?
Amre then went into the playing arena but the umpires ordered him to leave.?
RR's Yuzvendra Chahal tried to stop Kuldeep from walking out, while Jos Buttler was also seen speaking to Pant close to the boundary line. ??