Rishabh Pant FINED by BCCI For Breaching IPL Code of Conduct During DC-KKR Clash at Vizag

Vizag: It was a night to forget for the Delhi Capitals, who were hammered by the Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday in Vizag in an IPL game. Things went from bad to worse for captain Rishabh Pant as he was slapped with a fine for maintaining a slow-over rate. As it is his breach of the season, he was fined 25 per cent of the match fees.

“Rishabh Pant, the Delhi Capitals captain, has been fined after his team maintained a slow over rate during their TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam on April 3,” said BCCI in an official release.

“As it was his team’s second offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over rate offences, Pant was fined INR 24 lakhs. The rest of the members of the Playing XI, including the Impact Player, were each individually fined either INR 6 lakhs or 25 percent of their respective match fees, whichever is lesser.”

Meanwhile, the Capitals lost the game by 106 runs. With the win, the Knight Riders have made it three in a row.

“We were just all over the place (with the ball), we could have done better, and it is one of those days I feel. As a batting unit, we talked about going hard (after the target) and that’s how we approach these games because it is better to be all-out trying to go for the total than not chase it down,” Pant said after the loss.