Overview
- The league fined Sunrisers Hyderabad all-rounder Abhishek Sharma 25% of his match fee and recorded one demerit point for a code-of-conduct breach.
- The IPL said he violated Article 2.3, which bans offensive or profane language that is audible to spectators or TV audiences.
- He admitted the Level 1 offence and accepted the match referee’s sanction, which cannot be appealed at this level.
- In the same game at Eden Gardens, he hit 48 off 21 with four sixes and four fours, becoming the first Indian to reach 100 IPL sixes for SRH.
- Sunrisers won by 65 runs after posting 226 for 8 and bowling Kolkata Knight Riders out for 161, the season’s first successful defence of a total.