Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Rahul Tripathi found himself at the receiving end after being reprimanded for breaching the Indian Premier League (IPL) Code of Conduct during KKR’s match against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Tripathi, who has been one of the in-form players for the franchise, hit a 16-ball 23 and forged a 48-run stand with Shubhman Gill before being dismissed by T Natarajan.
“Tripathi admitted to the Level 1 offence 2.3 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct. For Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct, the Match Referee’s decision is final and binding,” IPL said in a statement.
However, KKR has good reasons to celebrate as they bagged two more points against SRH, courtesy a fine performance by Lockie Ferguson. The Kiwi pacer broke the back of the Hyderabad top-order and scalped two more wickets in the nervy Super Over to tilt the game in KKR’s favour.
He returned with figures of 3/15 in his quota of four overs before castling the timber of David Warner and Abdul Samad in the one-over face-off. Ex-skipper Dinesh Karthik looked in good touch as well. He played a timely cameo of 29* to add 58 runs off the last five overs in the company of Eoin Morgan.
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