KKR’s Harshit Rana celebrates after profitable the IPL 2024 T20 cricket match towards SRH on the Eden Gardens Stadium, in Kolkata, on March 23, 2024.
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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) pacer Harshit Rana on Sunday was fined 60% of his match charges for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct throughout his IPL debut towards Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on the iconic Eden Gardens.
IPL launched an announcement to substantiate that the Rana has been fined 60% of his match charges.
“Kolkata Knight Riders bowler Harshit Rana has been fined a total of 60 percent of his match fees for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct during his team’s Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Eden Gardens, Kolkata on March 23,” IPL acknowledged.
The assertion added that the 22-year-old has dedicated a “two Level 1 offences under Article 2.5 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct”.
“Rana committed two Level 1 offences under Article 2.5 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct. He was fined 10 percent and 50 percent of his match fees for the two respective offences. Rana admitted to the two offences and accepted the Match Referee’s sanction. For Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct, the Match Referee’s decision is final and binding,” it added.
Rana picked up three wickets in his four-over spell and gifted solely 33 runs. The KKR bowler displayed a shocking efficiency within the last over of the second inning and helped the Kolkata-based franchise clinch a win.
Recapping the match, put to bat first by SRH, KKR was decreased to 51/4 in 7.3 overs. However, a half-century by Phil Salt (54 in 40 balls, with three fours and three sixes) and an explosive knock by Ramandeep Singh (35 in 17 balls, with a 4 and 4 sixes) stored workforce’s run fee simply high quality, however nonetheless they have been struggling at 119/6 in 13.5 overs.
An explosive 67-run partnership adopted between Andre Rusell (64* in 25 balls, with three fours and 7 sixes) and Rinku Singh (23 in 15 balls, with three fours), powering KKR to 208/7 in 20 overs.
In the chase of 209 runs, SRH began off nicely with a 60-run opening stand between Mayank Agarwal (32 in 21 balls with 4 boundaries and a six) and Abhishek Sharma (32 in 19 balls, with 4 boundaries and two sixes). The workforce misplaced their method and was quickly 145/5 in 16.5 overs.
However, Heinrich Klaasen (63 in 29 balls with eight sixes) and Shahbaz Ahmed (16 in 5 balls, with a 4 and two sixes) unreleased a barrage of sixes in the direction of the top. 13 runs have been wanted in last over, however Harshit Rana (3/33) held his nerves, taking two wickets and defending the remaining runs.
