Winning the toss and electing to field first, Punjab Kings extracted three crucial scalps inside the 39-run powerplay before forties from Nicholas Pooran and Ayush Badoni stabilised the stage for a 171-run total. In reply, the ploy to bring mystery spinner Digvesh Rathi paid dividends for Rishabh Pant and co. as the spinner dismissed Arya and gave him a fierce send-off.
On the fifth ball of the third over, Rathi bowled on back of a length outside the stumps that Arya intended to swot across the line. He got a top edge in the way, and the ball came down near mid-off where Shardul Thakur settled for the catch. Subsequently, Digvesh, who is a teammate of Arya for the State side, hurled towards him and gestured a notebook and writing his name off – similar to what Williams did to Virat Kohli in the past. The Twitterverse saw this and buzzed around it.
Written off
— david Miller (@MillerDavi20894) April 1, 2025
LOL
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 dosti bani rahe pic.twitter.com/JCCHsSpsWb
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) April 1, 2025
New one
New Attitude Clown Digvesh 🤡 #LSGvsPBKS pic.twitter.com/fm2DDKa5TF
— 𝙅𝘼𝘾𝙆 ™ (@itz_Chris_off_) April 1, 2025
No more
Digvesh Rathi 😬
No more Fairplay Award now for LSG!#PBKSvLSG pic.twitter.com/WNWl3ArfNd— 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒔 (@Shebas_10dulkar) April 1, 2025
Hope
Hope Digvesh gets smashed after this unnecessary send off.
PBKS 27-1 after 3 overs #ipl #LSGvPBKS #shersquad #punjabkings #pbks pic.twitter.com/UKvJEHsabU— Harinder Sekhon (@harinsekhonn) April 1, 2025
Need to be humbled
Who does this digvesh guy thinks he is. Need him to be humbled
— 🎖️ (@PBKS_Moyes) April 1, 2025
Aggression
Digvesh Singh celebrated Priyansh Arya wicket aggressively, and the umpire is warning him, man. Game has gone soft, ffs… Both of them play for the same state.
— Sai (@akakrcb6) April 1, 2025
Definetly
Digvesh is definitely getting banned.
He shouldn’t but unfortunately he will, we need more of these kinda celebrations in the IPL#LSGvsPBKS— WTF Cricket (@CricketWtf) April 1, 2025
Surely
The match referee is surely gonna have a meeting with Digvesh. Totally silly and uncalled for send-off after picking up the wicket of Arya. Digvesh – Jawaani Ka Josh, Kho Gaya Apna Hosh. @LucknowIPL #LSGvPBKS
— Nikhil Ram (@Nikhil_Rams) April 1, 2025
Yup
Someone in LSG should advise Digvesh to stop doing that Notebook/diary celebration, it usually doesn’t end well for Bowlers who do that celebration.
Still remember Kesrick Williams being completely owned by Chadwick Walton and Kohli in CPL and T20Is respectively.— Akash (@Akashkumarjha14) April 1, 2025
