IPL 2019 | MS Dhoni fined for code of conduct breach after altercation with umpire

While Chennai's hot  streak continued into their seventh IPL match of the season, it was MS Dhoni who lost his cool. The fans saw the former Indian skipper barging into the field to argue with the umpire in a manner that was very uncharacteristic of him.

The incident took place in the final over of the second innings when CSK needed eight runs to win the match. Mitchell Santner was facing Ben Stokes and had managed to nudge the fourth delivery, which was seemingly above his waist, for a double. However, while umpire Ulhas Gandhe had signalled a no-ball, leg umpire Bruce Oxenford was seen overruling it and he obviously had a better view from his position.

It had left CSK with 6 runs from the last two balls and the two batsmen at the crease, Santner and Ravindra Jadeja, were seen protesting to the leg umpire, who didn't change his decision. Things escalated in no time and an angry MS Dhoni, who had just got dismissed on the previous ball, was seen walking onto the pitch pointing out to Oxenford that the umpire at the bowler’s end had signalled a no-ball.

Oxenford, however, stuck to his decision and Santner managed to take his team home by hitting a six off the last ball as CSK sit top of the table with 12 points of seven games. However, Dhoni has been fined for his on-field behaviour as BCCI revealed hours after the game.   

"MS Dhoni, the Chennai Super Kings captain, was fined 50 percent of his match fees for breaching the VIVO Indian Premier League’s (IPL) Code of Conduct during his team’s match against Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur," the BCCI press release said.

"Mr Dhoni admitted to the Level 2 offence 2.20 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct and accepted the sanction," it further read.