Lucknow Super Giants mentor Gautam Gambhir and Royal Challengers Bangalore talisman Virat Kohli have been fined 100 per cent of their match charges for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct throughout Monday’s match right here on the Ekana Stadium.
“Mr Gambhir and Mr Kohli admitted to the Level 2 offence under Article 2.21 of the IPL Code of Conduct,” a launch from IPL acknowledged.
Meanwhile, LSG pacer Naveen-ul-Haq has additionally been fined 50 per cent of his match charges.
Kohli and Gambhir have been concerned in a heated trade, including one other chapter to their bitter rivalry, one which dates again to the times when Gambhir used to captain KKR. The duo needed to be separated by Amit Mishra, RCB captain Faf du Plessis and LSG assistant coach Vijay Dahiya.
RCB received the match by 18 runs and Kohli’s transient interplay with LSG opener Kyle Mayers after a confrontation with Naveen earlier appeared to have triggered the altercation.
Gambhir appeared the extra animated of the 2 and was repeatedly held again from charging in direction of Kohli by the LSG gamers and help employees. This was after the 2 had shaken palms.
In their earlier assembly within the ongoing season of the IPL, Gambhir had gestured in direction of the stands, asking RCB supporters to close up.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com