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Earlier, Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Rohit Sharma was also fined Rs 12 lakh for a slow over-rate against Delhi Capitals (DC).
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Eoin Morgan has been fined Rs 12 lakh after his team maintained a slow over-rate during their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 match against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on April 21.
As it was his team’s first offence of the season under the IPL's Code of Conduct relating to a minimum over-rate offences, Morgan was just fined.
As per the rules of IPL, the captain of the side which fails to maintain the over-rate is fined Rs 12 lakh on the first instance of slow over-rate. On the second instance during the season, the fine is doubled (Rs 24 lakh) for the captain while every other member playing XI is fined 25 per cent of the match fee or Rs 6 lakh – whichever is lesser. When the offence is committed for the third time in a season, a fine of Rs 30 lakh is imposed on the captain and he also serves a one-match ban, while the rest of the members of the playing XI are charged with a fine of Rs 12 lakh or 50 per cent of match fee – whichever is lesser.
About the clash, CSK won their third game in a row after they survived an onslaught from KKR's middle and lower order featuring Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik and Pat Cummins.
Faf Du Plessis stayed unbeaten on 95 runs off just 60 balls as CSK finished with a monumental score of 220 runs on the board after batting first.
They then went on to reduce KKR to 31/5 inside the powerplay with Deepak Chahar picking up four massive wickets and Lungi Ngidi chipping in with the wicket of Rahul Tripathi.
By the virtue of this win, CSK pipped RCB to go to the top of the table with 6 points in 8 games, with a better net run rate.
Earlier, Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Rohit Sharma was also fined Rs 12 lakh for a slow over-rate during their match against Delhi Capitals (DC). It is to be noted that Mumbai Indians lost the match by six wickets at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
The IPL released a statement saying that it was Mumbai Indians first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, skipper Rohit Sharma was fined Rs 12 lakh.
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