IPL 2023: BCCI slaps fine on R Ashwin for comments after CSK vs RR match

Rajasthan Royals off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was on Thursday fined 25 per cent of his match fee for breaching IPL code of conduct during his side's match against Chennai Super Kings here.

Ashwin was fined for breaching Article 2.7 of IPL's code of conduct during match which Royals won by three runs on Wednesday night.

"Ashwin admitted to Level 1 Offence under Article 2.7 of IPL's Code of Conduct. For Level 1 breaches of Code of Conduct, Match Referee's decision is final and binding," a statement from IPL said.

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statement did t mention nature of offence but Article 2.7 of code of conduct for players and team officials relates to "public criticism of, or inappropriate comment in relation to an incident occurring in a match or any player, team official, match official or team participating in any match, irrespective of when such criticism or inappropriate comment is made".

After match, Ashwin had said that he was left puzzled by umpires' decision to change ball on ir own because of dew at Chepauk on Wednesday, and had called for consistency while taking such decisions.

heavy dew at MA Chidambaram Stadium forced umpires to intervene and change ball during CSK's run chase, leaving Ashwin, who returned figures of 2/25, "surprised".

Ashwin said he had never before seen umpires changing ball because of excessive dew.

"I'm quite surprised umpires changed ball for dew on ir own. It's never happened before and I'm quite surprised. Some of decisions in this year's IPL on field have left me a little flummoxed to be honest," said India stalwart at post-match press conference.

"I mean, (it) left me flummoxed in a good or a bad way. It's because I think what you need is a little bit of balance," said Ashwin, who was adjudged 'Player of Match'.

"As a bowling team, we are t asking for ball to be changed. But ball was changed on umpires' accord. I did ask umpire and he said we ( umpires) can change it.

"So I just hope every time re is dew y can change it every single time going forward in this IPL that sort of, you can do whatever you want, but you just need to be in a standard going forward," he added.