Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni had a horrible begin to the 14th version of the Indian Premier League as after his crew suffered a giant defeat against Delhi Capitals of their IPL 2021 opening sport on Saturday (April 11), Dhoni was fined INR 12 lakh for Code of Conduct Breach after his aspect maintained a gradual over-rate through the sport.
“Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni has been fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during their VIVO Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 match against Delhi Capitals at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on April 10. As it was his team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Mr Dhoni was fined Rs 12 lakh,” learn an official launch from IPL.
Notably, it was CSK’s first offence of the season and thus the previous India captain was let go along with only a tremendous however a few extra can see him getting suspended for a match or two.
As per new stringent IPL guidelines, both sides has to complete an IPL inning in 90 minutes, together with two strategic time-outs of two and a half minutes every. As per the rule, the over fee needs to be 14.1 overs per hour.
“As a measure to regulate the match timings, the twentieth over in every innings is now included in 90 minutes, earlier the twentieth over was to start out on or earlier than the ninetieth minute. The minimal over fee to be achieved in IPL Matches shall be 14.11 overs per hour (ignoring the time taken by time-outs),” a BCCI official had stated earlier.
However, the penalty for the offence stays unchanged, therefore, a second offence will see CSK skipper Dhoni receiving a 24 lakh tremendous, whereas the remaining crew members will likely be fined INR 6 lakh or 25% match price tremendous (whichever is lesser) every. A 3rd offence will lead to an INR 30 lakh tremendous, one-match ban for the captain and INR 12 lakh or 50% match price tremendous (whichever is lesser) for every member of the crew excluding the captain.
Talking concerning the match, Dhoni was dismissed for a duck, however his crew nonetheless managed to publish a difficult 188 runs on the board. However, an outstanding present by Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan, who stitched a 138-run opening stand in simply 13.3 overs, helped DC chase down the goal in simply 18.4 overs with seven wickets in hand.
