Bengaluru, Apr 18: The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter Virat Kohli has been fined 10% of his match fee for breaching the Indian Premier League (IPL) Code of Conduct during the team’s match against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Kohli admitted to the Level 1 offence under Article 2.2 of the IPL Code of Conduct, which was not elaborated on in the statement released by the IPL.
The incident that caused the violation could have been due to Kohli’s over-the-top celebration following CSK’s Shivam Dube’s dismissal off the bowling of Wayne Parnell. Dube had struck a 27-ball 52 in CSK’s mammoth 226 for 6 in the ‘Southern Derby’, which Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team won by eight runs.
According to the IPL statement, the Match Referee’s decision is final and binding for Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct. Kohli scored six runs in the match against CSK, and RCB will play their next match against the Punjab Kings at Mohali on April 20.
