Royal Challengers Bangalore batter Virat Kohli has been fined 10 percent of his match fees for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct during his team’s match against Chennai Super Kings at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
“Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter Virat Kohli has been fined 10 percent of his match fee for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct during the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 match against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru,” the IPL said in a statement.
“Mr. Kohli admitted to the Level 1 offence under Article 2.2 of the IPL Code of Conduct,” it added.
Notably, for Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct, the Match Referee’s decision is final and binding. The statement didn’t specify the incident but the fine possibly came because of Kohli’s exuberant celebration of CSK batter Shivam Dube’s wicket.
Dube was caught by Mohammed Siraj in the deep during the 17th over, when he was threatening to take the game away from RCB. Virat didn’t have a great game with the bat against CSK.
Virat Kohli Bad Luck
After hitting a boundary against left-arm pacer Akash Singh, Kohli got unlucky, when the ball hit him off the bat and ricocheted into the stumps, forcing him to walk back to the dugout in the very first over of a mammoth chase of 227 runs.
Attacking fifties from Devon Conway (83 off 45) and Shivam Dube (52 off 27) powered CSK to 226/6. The CSK bowlers then held their nerve and survived Glenn Maxwell (76 off 36) and Faf Du Plessis (62 off 33) blitzes to win the match by 8 runs on Monday.
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The Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru was lit-up with the Southern derby of the Indian Premier League (IPL) which saw hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) locking horns on Monday night. The battle was intense as both sides showcased some impeccable performances. However, the local fans suffered the heartbreak as MS Dhoni & Co pulled off a stunning 8-run victory against the hosts in what turned out to be another final-over thriller of the season.
Riding on scintillating fifties by Devon Conway and Shivam Dube, CSK piled up 226 runs in 20 overs after being asked to bat. In reply, the RCB suffered a couple of blows but then skipper Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell launched a juggernaut against the Chennai bowling attack. Not only they notched up their half-centuries but also stitched a 126-run stand for the third wicket. Had they continued a bit longer, the results would have been different.
But some great catches taken by Dhoni shifted the momentum in CSK’s favour.
After the game, the two stalwarts of Indian cricket – Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni – had a long chat at the sidelines of the field. The video of the conversation was shared on IPL’s official Twitter handle. “A legendary duo,” the caption of the video read.