Digvesh rathi abhishek sharma fight: Lucknow Super Giants player Digvesh Rathi has been banned for 50 percent of the match fee and a match ban. In IPL 2025, he has been banned for a match due to his five demerit points. In fact, in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday, he made a wrong gesture after dismissing a SRH batsman. Digvesh Rathi is not the first player to ban IPL 2025. It is also a big question, how does the players be banned in the Indian Premier League? You will get the answer here.

Why was Digvesh Rathi banned?

This case is of Lucknow vs Hyderabad match, in which Digvesh Rathi made a provocative gesture after dismissing Abhishek Sharma. Abhishek was dismissed for 59 runs in 20 balls in a stormy style, so his wicket was very important for Lucknow. The official statement on behalf of the Indian Premier League told that Rathi has been banned to violate the IPL rules.

How is the ban in IPL?

BCCI issued new rules before the IPL 2025 started. The ban on players and team officials is taken on the basis of demerit points. If a team is found guilty of slow-over rate many times, then players and captains are also banned on the basis of demerit points.

According to the rules, if a player gets 4-7 demerit points, then a match is banned. Ban of 2 matches at 8-11 demerit points, while 3 matches for 12-15 points and 5 matches on more than 16 demerit points can be banned.

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