Gujarat Titans (GT) pacer Ishant Sharma was slapped with a 25 percent fine and handed one demerit point for breaching the Indian Premier League’s code of conduct during the IPL 2025 victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Sunday. A statement from the IPL, posted on their website, said that Ishant had been found to be in breach of Article 2.2 but did not specify what he had done to breach it.
Article 2.2 relates to “abuse of cricket equipment or clothing, ground equipment or fixtures and fittings during a match”. The statement also said that “for Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct, the Match Referee’s decision is final and binding.”
Ishant later admitted to being guilty of the Level 1 offence and accepted match referee Javagal Srinath’s sanction.
Ishant has had a frustrating IPL 2025 so far, claiming just a single wicket in three games. He has been expensive as well, conceding 107 runs across eight overs in three games. On Sunday against the Sunrisers Hyderabad, the Gujarat Titans pacer was hit for 53 runs in four wicketless overs. He then made way for Sherfane Rutherford.
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While Ishant struggled in Hyderabad, his fellow pacer Mohammed Shami ended the night with his best figures in the IPL: taking four wickets for just 17 runs.
Thanks to Shami’s heroics with the ball, Gujarat Titans defeated the Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets. This was Hyderabad’s fourth defeat in five IPL 2025 games, a sequence of results that sees the SRH team plummet to bottom of IPL 2025 standings. For Gujarat, on the other hand, this was their third victory in a row after they started the season with a defeat against Punjab Kings.
