IPL 2025: MI Skipper hardik Fined For Sluggish Over-Price Offense
Ahmedabad, mumbai Indians captain hardik pandya has been fined after his team maintained a slow over rate for the duration of IPL fit in opposition to gujarat Titans at the narendra modi Stadium on Saturday.
As this became his group's first offense of the season under Article 2.2 of the IPL's Code of Conduct, which pertains to minimum over-rate offenses, Pandya was fined Rs 12 lakhs," the IPL assertion read.
Mumbai suffered their second loss of the season on saturday after Prasidh krishna and mohammed siraj powered gujarat Titans to a fantastic 36-run win over the five-time champions in the fifth IPL 2025 at the narendra modi Stadium on saturday night.
Earlier, hardik had missed MI's marketing campaign opener against chennai Super Kings (CSK) due to a suspension for an over-fee offense in the IPL 2024 fixture against the lucknow Super Giants. The 5-time champions struggled in his absence, failing to place an aggressive overall in opposition to CSK and subsequently losing with the aid of four wickets.
That is the primary time in IPL 2025 that a captain has obtained a gradual over-price high-quality. MI skipper hardik fined for gradual over-rate offense.
Titans produced a complete group performance to defeat MIs by 36 runs and check in their first win of IPL 2025.
Put in to bat first, GT rode on Sai Sudharsan's sixty-three off just 41 balls to post 196/8. Later, pacer Prasidh krishna showed excellence in selecting wickets with slower balls, whilst Siraj was gifted in his scrambled seam deliveries as the duo picked up two wickets each to help GT restrict MI to one hundred sixty-six of their 20 overs and opened their account in IPL 2025.
MI, currently positioned ninth within the standings with no wins, will next tackle defending champions kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday.
"I assume in batting and bowling we had been 15-20 runs brief in both locations. We had not been experts inside the discipline; we made simple errors, and that cost us 20-25 runs, and in a t20 sport, that is pretty a lot. They (GT openers) batted brilliantly, best multiple deliveries right here and there. They have been quite first-rate; they failed to take many chances; they did the proper stuff; they have been capable of getting runs without playing many volatile shots," said hardik after the loss.
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