Lucknow Super Giants spinner Digvesh Rathi may have divided opinions with his unique notebook celebration, where he mimics the act of signing a notebook, after taking wickets, but his near and dear ones insist it’s a harmless gesture. Rathi was fined 25 per cent of his match fee and awarded one demerit point as per the IPL Code of Conduct’s Article 2.5 for Level 1 breaches for his first notebook celebration when he dismissed Punjab Kings’ Priyansh Arya.

Article 2.5 includes “any language, action or gesture used by a Player and directed towards a batter upon his/her dismissal which has the potential to provoke an aggressive reaction from the dismissed batter, whether or not any reaction results, or which could be considered to disparage or demean.”