Monday night (April 10) was like a double whammy for Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf Duplessis. Firstly, his team lost the game, and secondly, after the match, he was fined Rs 12 lakh due to slow over rate.
In the Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore match played on Monday night, when LSG batsman Marcus Stoinis and then Nicholas Pooran were tearing apart RCB bowlers, RCB captain Faf du Plessis was constantly changing fields, bowlers and tactics. During this he wasted a lot of time. The result was that RCB could not touch the minimum number of overs bowled on time. In such a situation, after the match, the IPL committee fined him.
The IPL released a short statement pertaining to the incident
“As it was the team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, captain Faf du Plessis was fined Rs 12 lakhs.”
RCB started this IPL season with a win. They gave a one-sided defeat to Mumbai Indians. After this RCB was badly defeated by KKR and now LSG also defeated them in a thrilling manner. RCB’s team has now reached the seventh position in the points table.
In last night’s match, RCB scored a huge score of 212 runs after losing 2 wickets while batting first. The trio of Virat, Faf and Maxwell scored half-centuries. However, here the blazing half-centuries of Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran of LSG changed the game and RCB had to face defeat on the last ball. LSG won this match by one wicket.