{"id":665538,"date":"2026-05-12T07:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665538\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:26:17","slug":"tim-david-fined-for-obscene-gesture-video-royal-challengers-bengaluru-vs-mumbai-indians-highlights-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665538\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim David fined for obscene gesture, video, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Mumbai Indians, highlights, news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian cricketer Tim David has been fined 30 per cent of the his match fee for making an \u201cobscene\u201d gesture during Sunday\u2019s Indian Premier League match in Raipur.<\/p>\n

During the Royal Challengers Bengaluru\u2019s thrilling two-wicket victory over the Mumbai Indians<\/a>, David was seen giving a double middle-fingered salute from the dugout, with footage of the incident circulating social media channels.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, the IPL released a statement confirming David had accumulated two demerit points for a Level 1 breach of the tournament\u2019s Code of Conduct, specifically Article 2.6, which relates to \u201cusing a gesture that is obscene, offensive or insulting\u201d. The 30-year-old admitted to the offence and accepted the sanction.<\/p>\n

If he receives one more demerit point, David will cop a one-match suspension; he earned a demerit point earlier in the tournament for \u201cdisobeying an umpire\u2019s instruction during a match\u201d.<\/p>\n

David, who has accumulated 232 runs at 46.40 during this season\u2019s IPL, was named in Australia\u2019s 16-player squad for next month\u2019s T20 tour of Bangladesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reigning champions the Royal Challengers are currently top of the IPL standings with seven wins from 11 games, while Mumbai can no longer qualify for the knockouts having suffered their eighth loss of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian cricketer Tim David has been fined 30 per cent of the his match fee for making an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-665538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}