Royal Challengers Bengaluru suffered their seventh loss in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 after 1-run loss against Shreyas Iyer's Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens, on April 21 (Sunday). However, this was not the end of bad news for RCB as after the thrilling contest against KKR, Faf du Plessis has been hit by a hefty fine of 12 Lakhs INR for maintaining slow-over rate.
IPL fines Faf du Plessis
Faf du Plessis suffered a fine for breaching the IPL code of conduct. He has been fined an amount of 12 Lakhs INR for maintaining a slow-over rate in the clash against KKR. This is also Bengaluru's first slow over offence of the ongoing tournament. IPL made this announcement from an official statement release.
“Mr. Faf du Plessis, Captain, Royal Challengers Bengaluru has been fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during Match 36 of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on April 21, 2024,” read the official IPL statement.
“As it was his team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Rahul was fined INR 12 Lac,” the statement further added.
Du Plessis on RCB's 7th IPL 2024 loss
RCB have practically ended their IPL 2024 campaign after their sixth consecutive loss in IPL 2024. Faf du Plessis after the match spoke on Virat Kohli's controversial dismissal and Bengaluru's sixth consecutive loss of the season.
“It was crazy, rules are rules, Virat and myself thought that the ball was higher than the waist (on Kohli's dismissal), I guess they measured from the popping crease, one team thinks it's high, the other doesn't. That's how the game goes at times. Then the partnership, it was magnificent (on the Jacks-Patidar partnership), but when you don't win too many games, some sort of panic sets in, and the Narine over was game-changing. You don't feel that you have time to settle down and bat (on the evolution of the IPL this season), the game doesn't allow it to do that, obviously, you have an extra batter, but in chases like these, you have to keep going,” said Du Plessis in the post-match presentation.
"The match-up against Narine, I thought that was the game-changing over. The small things, I am actually proud of the boys tonight, the way we bowled and fielded, we did give away a couple of big overs towards the end, but I thought we kept them down to a par score. We thought we'll go hard in the batting powerplay, find those boundaries at the start of the innings. We were desperate, 10/10 from an effort perspective, the way we put up the effort in the ground, the faces told the story. We've got an unbelievable fanbase, we want to make them happy, we want them to have a smile on their face. We'll have to continue putting in our efforts and try to change things around," he added.
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