Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni celebrated his 200th game in his franchise’s colors with a win over Punjab Kings final Friday (April 16) however the deal with of at the least a two-game ban from the Indian Premier League (IPL) remains to be looming large over the previous India captain. Dhoni was docked Rs 12 lakh as match charges for sustaining a sluggish bowling over-rate in CSK’s opening game of IPL 2021 towards Delhi Capitals.
Dhoni made up for that mistake towards the Punjab Kings, as CSK managed to bowl their quota of overs in simply 88 minutes as an alternative of BCCI mandated 90 minutes for the completion of an innings. However, BCCI and IPL guidelines additionally state that Dhoni could be banned for 2 to 4 video games if CSK repeated the error inside two video games because the effective. This signifies that Dhoni will as soon as once more must control the over-rate towards Rajasthan Royals in their third match on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Monday (April 19).
The IPL Playing Conditions state: the officers will calculate the over-rate on the finish of every innings. However, they may take the next allowances into consideration as effectively in response to Clause 12.7.3:
1. The time misplaced as a outcome of therapy given to a participant by licensed medical personnel on the sector of play.
2. The time misplaced as a outcome of a participant being required to go away the sector as a outcome of a critical damage.
3. The time taken for all third umpire referrals, consultations and any umpire or participant evaluations.
4. The time misplaced as a outcome of time-wasting by the batting aspect.
5. The time misplaced because of all different circumstances which might be past the management of the fielding aspect.
Landmark game for Dhoni as CSK captain
Monday’s game towards Sanju Samson’s Royals can be Dhoni’s 200th game as CSK captain. Although he appeared in 176 video games in IPL and 24 video games in the now-defunct Champions League T20 for CSK, Dhoni solely led in 199 of these video games with Suresh Raina being the captain in one of these CLT20 video games.
The celebration can quickly flip bitter for Dhoni and his followers if he fails to stick to IPL legal guidelines particularly on the subject of sustaining the over-rate. The former India captain’s followers are already ready for his to attain a run in IPL 2021, after he scored a duck towards DC and didn’t come out to bat towards Punjab Kings.
