Royal Challengers Bangalore suffered an 8-run defeat at the hands of Chennai Super Kings at their home ground M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Monday. Runs rained heavily in the 24th match of IPL 2023, but the CSK team managed to defend the target of 227 runs. After the match, RCB's star batsman Virat Kohli got a big blow.
Virat Kohli was found to have breached the IPL Code of Conduct during the RCB vs CSK match, after which he was fined 10 percent of his match fee by the match referee. Please tell that Virat Kohli had celebrated aggressively on the wicket of Shivam Dubey, seeing which the match referee took this action against him. The former RCB captain has accepted his crime.
Virat Kohli accepted his mistake
"Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli has been fined 10 percent of his match fee after he was found guilty of breaching the IPL Code of Conduct against Chennai Super Kings," the IPL said in a press release. Kohli has admitted a Level 1 offense under Article 2.2 of the Code of Conduct. The match referee's decision on a Level 1 breach of the Code of Conduct is final and binding.
Virat's bat remained silent
Batting first, CSK scored 226 runs losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. Virat Kohli was not able to give a good start to RCB chasing a huge target. He got out after scoring 6 runs in 4 balls with the help of a four. Akash Singh clean-bowled Kohli. Kohli has done well in the current IPL so far, but his bat was silent against CSK. Kohli has scored 220 runs in 5 matches in IPL 2023 with the help of three half-centuries.
RCB lost at their home ground
Let us tell you that Faf du Plessis (62) and Glenn Maxwell (76) played stormy innings for RCB while chasing the target of 227 runs, but both of them together could not win the team. RCB team could score 218 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. With this win, CSK has reached the third position in the points table. On the other hand, RCB's team is in seventh place after winning two out of five matches.
