Lucknow, May 20 -- Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) spinner Digvesh Rathi has been handed a one-match suspension and fined 50 per cent of his match fee after breaching the Indian Premier League (IPL) Code of Conduct for the third time this season, the league announced on Tuesday.
The latest infraction occurred during LSG's home fixture against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), where Rathi dismissed Abhishek Sharma in the eighth over of the second innings and gave him a pointed send-off. Rathi waved Sharma off the field and theatrically entered the dismissal in his imaginary "notebook", before engaging in a verbal exchange with the batsman. On-field umpire Michael Gough had to step in to de-escalate the situation.
This act has taken Rathi's demerit poi...