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New Delhi, April 19 (HS). Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya has been fined Rs 12 lakh for slow over-rate during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match against Punjab Kings in Mullanpur, Chandigarh on Thursday.
“Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya has been charged for maintaining a slow over-rate during the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match against Punjab Kings at the PCA New International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur on April 18,” the league said in a press release late on Thursday night. Fine has been imposed after. Since this was his team's first offense of the season under the IPL code of conduct relating to minimum over rate offences, Pandya was fined Rs 12 lakh.”
Talking about the match, batting first in this match, Mumbai Indians set the target of 20 thanks to the excellent half-century of Suryakumar Yadav (78 runs from 53 balls, 7 fours, 3 sixes) and innings of Rohit Sharma (36), Tilak Verma (34 not out). Scored 192 runs for 7 wickets in the over. For Punjab, Harshal Patel took 3 wickets, captain Sam Curran took 2 wickets and Kagiso Rabada took 1 wicket.
In reply, the Punjab team, which was struggling after losing 5 wickets for only 49 runs, made a comeback from Ashutosh Sharma (28 balls, 61 runs, 2 fours, 7 sixes) and Shashank Singh (25 balls, 41 runs, 2 fours, 3 sixes). Tried a lot, but in the end the team lost the match by 9 runs. Punjab team was reduced to 183 runs in 19.1 overs.
For Mumbai, Gerald Coetzee and Jasprit Bumrah took 3-3 wickets, Akash Madhwal, Hardik Pandya and Shreyas Gopal took 1-1 wicket. Bumrah was given the Man of the Match award for his excellent bowling.