Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) started IPL 2023 season with a great win over Mumbai Indians. But it didn’t take long for the tables to turn on them. They have lost two games on the bounce after good starts and were in winning positions on both the occasions. Their latest loss came against Lucknow Super Giants at home as RCB could not defend a mammoth score of 212 and lost the game by one wicket.
Also, his over-rate was not good at all and was one over behind according to the innings timer. So he had to bring an extra fielder inside the circle of 30 during the match. Not only that, their captain Faf Du Plessis He has been fined Rs 12 lakh for the team’s poor over rate in the match.
An IPL media advisory read, “Royal Challengers Bangalore fined for maintaining slow over-rate during match 15 of Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 against Lucknow Super Giants at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on Monday.” As this was the team’s first offense of the season under the IPL’s code of conduct, which deals with minimum over-rate offences, skipper Faf du Plessis was fined Rs 12 lakh.
It was a difficult period for Faf du Plessis as captain as the bowlers fell apart despite taking three wickets early in the innings. He looked very disappointed after losing the match but gave credit to the LSG batsmen. Marcus Stoinis And Nicholas Pooran to take the game away from RCB.
“Disappointed. They played well through the middle. One ball one run. We backed ourselves to get run out. Just looking at the wicket, it was slow enough from 7-14. It skidded in the last five overs. Started happening. Really good to have some good cricketing shots. Stoinis and Pooran played everything through the middle. He took one of our main bowlers (Harshal) in his first few overs. It’s time to bowl at the death A tough spot to be in. You have to hang in there, I was struggling for most of my innings. Was happy to give the strike back to Kohli, sometimes you have to scratch.