Delhi Capitals’ (DC) skipper Axar Patel was fined for a gradual over-rate within the earlier match in opposition to the Mumbai Indians (MI) in IPL 2025. Since this was his first offence, he was fined INR 12 lakhs. As per Article 2.22 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct, captains are fined INR 12 lakh on the primary prevalence of gradual over charges within the event.
Earlier, if the offence was dedicated greater than as soon as, it led to the captain’s suspension from one sport, relying on the severity of the offence. Nonetheless, the IPL committee has discarded the suspension rule from the event, and now the offences will solely be handled by means of fines and in-field restrictions.
The Axar Patel-led DC workforce misplaced their first sport of the season by 12 runs after sustaining a profitable streak of 4 matches. MI batters had been beautiful within the first innings as they scored 205 runs. Ryan Rickelton (41 off 25), Suryakumar Yadav (40 off 28), Tilak Varma (59 off 33), and Naman Dhir’s (38* off 17) collective efforts helped MI get their second win of the event.
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Karun Nair’s batting heroics goes in useless as DC’s profitable streak ends
Regardless of Karun Nair‘s stable knock of 89 runs off 40 balls within the first sport of the season, DC batters failed within the center order, resulting in their first defeat. Abhishek Porel (33 off 25) and Nair fashioned a smart partnership of 119 runs. Nonetheless, after Porel’s dismissal, Delhi batters saved shedding wickets at common intervals.
For MI, Karn Sharma was the ‘star’ of the match as he claimed three wickets and restricted DC from chasing down the rating. He gained the ‘Participant of the Match’ award for his magnificent bowling efficiency. Mitchell Santner was additionally sensible with the ball, taking two wickets. Solely Deepak Chahar and Karn Sharma had been economical, whereas all the opposite bowlers, together with Jasprit Bumrah, had been hit for boundaries and maximums.
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