Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Nitish Rana’s Sunday night celebration was curtailed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) after they were once again found guilty of breaching the IPL’s Code of Conduct. KKR beat MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by six wickets but were found guilty of maintaining a slow over-rate for the second time in the IPL 2023 season.
Both the KKR team and skipper Nitish Rana have been fined for their second over-rate offense of the season. “Kolkata Knight Riders captain Nitish Rana has been fined for maintaining a slow over rate during the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Chennai Super Kings at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on May 14, 2023,” read an IPL statement. fined for.” Reading.
“As this was his team’s second offense of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Mr Rana has been fined Rs. 24 lakh and each member of the playing XI, including the impact substitute, is fined Rs. 6 lakh or 25 per cent of the match fee, whichever is less,” the statement added.
During the match, Rana was also seen losing his temper at the umpire when he was informed that KKR had exceeded the allotted time for bowling their 20 overs against CSK. The KKR skipper was seen arguing with the umpire after his team was adjudged ‘one over short’ before the 19th over of the innings.
See Nitish Rana’s argument with the umpire during the match against Chennai Super Kings…
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This is the third time in this IPL season that Rana has been fined. Rana and Mumbai Indians all-rounder Ritik Shokeen were both fined part of their match fees after they admitted to breaching the IPL’s code of conduct during the match after a verbal spat in Mumbai earlier this season.
The incident happened in the ninth over of their match at the Wankhede Stadium when the Mumbai Indians bowler hurriedly dismissed Rana after dismissing the KKR skipper, who stopped in his tracks and threw a few words at the bowler. Shokeen had Rana caught at long-on by substitute fielder Ramandeep Singh and immediately looked in the batsman’s direction to say a few words. But as soon as Rana turned back to respond to the youngster’s allegation, Mumbai Indians’ stand-in captain Suryakumar Yadav and the game’s senior-most player Piyush Chawla stepped in to defuse the tension.











