RCB Slow Over Rate: Monday night (April 10) was like a double whammy for Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf Duplessis. One, his team lost the game they won, and secondly, after the match, he was fined Rs 12 lakh due to a slow over-rate.
In the Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers, Bangalore match played on Monday night, when LSG batsman Marcus Stoinis and then Nicholas Pooran were tearing apart RCB bowlers, RCB captain Duplessis was constantly changing fields, bowlers and tactics. During this, he wasted a lot of time. The result was that RCB could not touch the minimum number of overs bowled on time. In such a situation, the IPL committee fined him after the match.
The IPL issued a statement; during the 15th match of the IPL, it was found that RCB bowled a very slow over-rate against LSG at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. This is the first case of breaking the IPL rules related to slow over-rate by this team this season. That’s why RCB captain Faf du Plessis is fined 12 lakhs.
RCB’s Second Consecutive Defeat
RCB started this IPL season with a win. He had given a one-sided defeat to Mumbai Indians. After KKR badly defeated this RCB, LSG also compellingly beat them. RCB’s team has now reached the seventh position in the points table.
In last night’s match, RCB scored 212 runs after losing two wickets while batting first. The trio of Virat, Duplessis and Maxwell scored half-centuries. However, the blazing half-centuries of Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran of LSG changed the game, and RCB had to face defeat on the last ball. LSG won this match by one wicket.
