IPL 2023: Virat has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during the IPL match against Rajasthan Royals at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday (April 23)
Virat Kohli, the acting captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), has led the team to victory in two consecutive matches. He captained Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals after 18 months in the IPL. However, meanwhile a bad news has come for Kohli. Virat has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during the IPL match against Rajasthan Royals at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday (April 23).
Kohli was fined Rs 24 lakh. At the same time, other players of RCB have also been punished. 25 percent of his match fee has been deducted. In the statement issued by the IPL, it was told that the RCB team could not bowl full overs on time against Rajasthan. The team has done this for the second time in the season.
A fine of Rs 24 lakh has been imposed on Virat and a fine of Rs 6 lakh each or 25 per cent of the match on other players of the playing-11, including the impact player. RCB captain Faf Duplessis has been fined after the loss against Lucknow. Supergiants. Due to the second mistake of the team, this time a big penalty has been imposed. Now if the team commits this mistake once again, then the captain may be banned for one or more matches. In such a situation, if Virat captains in the upcoming match, then he has to be careful, otherwise he can get a big punishment.
Batting first, RCB scored 189 runs losing nine wickets. Faf Duplessis scored 62 and Maxwell scored 77 runs. Trent Boult and Sandeep Sharma took two wickets each for Rajasthan. In response, the Rajasthan team was able to score only 182 runs after losing six wickets. Devdutt Padikkal scored 52 and Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 47 runs. In the end, Dhruv Jurel played an inning of 34 runs in 16 balls, but could not win his team. Harshal Patel took three wickets for RCB.
