During Sunday's Indian Premier League 2026 final against Gujarat Titans, Royal Challengers Bengaluru batsman Tim David violated Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct, resulting in a 50% match fee fine and two demerit points. During the 10th over of the first innings, David aggressively threw an ice bag at umpire Nitin Menon and was penalized. David was found to have breached Article 2.9 of the IPL's Code of Conduct, which relates to "throwing a ball (or any other item of cricket equipment such as a water bottle) at or near a Player, Team Official, Umpire, Match Referee or any other third person in an inappropriate and/or dangerous manner during a Match." Since he collected five demerit points in the recently-concluded IPL season, he will be suspended from RCB's first game of the next IPL season or the first game of the franchise he represents in IPL 2027. This was David's third Level 1 offence of the season, having committed his first offence in Match 20 (one Demerit Point) and his second offence in Match 54 (two Demerit Points).