The Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Mumbai Indians (RCB vs MI) match on May 10 night was a pure thriller. To find out the winner of the contest, everyone had to wait until the final ball of the match in New Raipur. Amid the tense moment, RCB head coach and Zimbabwe cricket legend, Andy Flower, made a massive mistake, for which he will have to pay a hefty fine to the board.
BCCI has informed that the head of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru has breached IPL’s Code of Conduct. During the 18th over of the match, Andy Flower was spotted in an animated chat with the fourth umpire, outside the playing area. Some of the words used by Flower were caught on mic. Because of using foul words against the fourth umpire, the RCB head coach, Dins Guily, and he admitted his offense as well.
IPL issues an official statement on the incident involving the RCB head coach
“Andy Flower, Head Coach, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, has been fined 15% of his applicable match fee for breaching Level 1 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct for Players and Team officials,” IPL informed about his incident through an official press release.
“Andy was found to have breached article 2.3 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct, which relates to ‘use of an audible obscenity during a match.” The incident occurred in 17.2 when Andy spoke aggressively with the fourth umpire. Andy admitted to the offence and accepted the sanction imposed by Match Referee, Amit Sharma,” it added further.
A close contest between RCB and MI in New Raipur
It was a very close match at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium, New Raipur in Atal Nagar-Nava Raipur. The target was not stiff, but the pitch was not ideal enough for the modern style of Twenty20 batting. In both of the innings, the batters had to grind hard for every run on the board.
Batting first, the Mumbai Indians scored 166 runs in the 20-over limit. A fifty-plus innings by Tilak Varma and a forty-plus runs innings by Naman Dhir helped MI to finalize the challenging total. For the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Bhuvneshwar Kumar was brilliant with the ball in the first innings, taking 4 wickets in 4 overs.
Krunal Pandya was the hero for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Batters struggle continues in the second innings as well. Virat Kohli, captain Rajat Patidar, Devdutt Padikkal, Romario Shepherd, they all departed cheaply against the MI bowling front. Krunal Panyda was the unexpected element in the contest who made the difference in the match. He batted with a calf muscle issue and took Bengaluru close to the finish line.
Pandya’s 73-run knock was the decisive moment of the game. In the final ball of the penultimate over of the match, Rasikh Salam and Bhuvneshwar Kumar snatched a double to win the match for RCB by 2 wickets.
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