Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter Virat Kohli has been fined 10 percent of his match fee for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct during the IPL 2023 match against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday.
Attacking fifties from Devon Conway (83 off 45) and Shivam Dube (52 off 27) powered CSK to 226/6. Then CSK bowlers held their nerve and survived Glenn Maxwell’s (76 off 36) and Faf Du Plessis’s (62 off 33) blitzes to win the game by 8 runs in yet another thriller. “Mr. Kohli admitted to the Level 1 offence under Article 2.2 of the IPL Code of Conduct,” an IPL media advisory said on Tuesday. “For Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct, the Match Referee’s decision is final and binding,” it added.
Coming to the match, chasing 227, RCB copped a huge early blow as they lost Virat Kohli, who dragged one onto the stumps, off impact player Akash Singh. He looked to swing one to the leg side but got an inside edge onto the pads, and the ball then trickled onto the stumps. Akash could have had two wickets in the over, but Maheesh Theekshana cropped Mahipal Lomror at mid-off. Lomror, though, couldn’t make the most of the lifeline as he departed in the next over, miscuing one-off Tushar Deshpande to backward point without adding any runs to his tally.