Delhi Capitals Captain Shreyas Iyer Fined Rs 12 lakh For Slow Over-Rate Against Sunrisers Hyderabad 

Delhi Capitals Captain, Shreyas Iyer has been fined after his team made a slow over-rate against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the recent IPL 2020 match. 

Shreyas Iyer was fined Rs 12 lakh as it was his team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct that has been relating to minimum over-rate offence.  

Meanwhile, a press release by the IPL read as, “Delhi Capitals Captain Shreyas Iyer has been fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during their Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Abu Dhabi on 29 September 2020."

"As it was his team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Mr. Iyer was fined Rs 12 lakh," the release added. 

This has become the second offence related to slow-over rate in IPL 2020. As last week, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Virat Kohli was found guilty of his team maintaining a slow-over rate against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) after which he was fined an amount of Rs 12 lakh.

Yesterday, Delhi Capitals suffered their first defeat of the season as they lost to Sunrisers by 15 runs at the Shaikh Zayed Stadium.

During the match, opener Jonny Bairstow's fifty was complemented by a bowling effort from spinner Rashid Khan as Sunrisers defeated Delhi to open their account in IPL 13.

“We were pretty much happy with 162, it was a par score on this wicket. We had no idea how this wicket would behave as this is our first game here. They outplayed us in all three departments and credit to them for that. It was surprising and in the second innings, it (pitch) was two-paced,” Iyer said after the match. 

“When I went in, the ball wasn’t coming onto the bat. We thought dew would come on but we can’t give any reasons at this moment. We didn’t execute the way we wanted to. Lot of learnings from this wicket and conditions," he added.