IPL 2025: Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya fined for slow over rate in MI vs PBKS
IPL 2025: Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer and Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya were handed hefty fines after their teams were found guilty of maintaining a slow over rate during the India Premier League (IPL) 2025 Qualifier 2 in Ahmedabad on June 1. Despite rain delaying the start of the knockout clash, the over-rate violations stretched the game well past the extended cut-off, triggering penalties under the league’s updated code of conduct.
For the PBKS skipper, Iyer, this marked his side’s second such offence of the season, resulting in a fine of Rs 24 lakh. Pandya, meanwhile, was penalised Rs 30 lakh, as it was Mumbai’s third breach. The rest of the playing XI from both sides didn’t escape either – PBKS players were fined Rs 6 lakh or 25 percent of their match fees (whichever was lower), while MI’s squad faced a steeper Rs 12 lakh or 50 percent cut.
“As it was his team’s second offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Iyer was fined INR 24 lakhs. The rest of the members of the Playing XI, including the Impact Player, were each individually fined either INR 6 lakh or 25 per cent of their respective match fees, whichever is lesser,” IPL said in their statement.
IPL 2025: “Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya has also been fined after his team maintained a slow over rate. As it was his team’s third offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Pandya was fined INR 30 Lakh,” it read further.
Interestingly, while a third offence would have previously resulted in a match ban for the captain – as it did for Hardik in IPL 2024 – that clause was revised ahead of the 2025 season, allowing him to avoid suspension this time.
IPL 2025: The contest itself sawShreyas Iyer lead from the frontwith a blistering and unbeaten 87 off 41 balls, anchoring PBKS’s chase of 204 and securinga five-wicket win over Mumbai on Sundayat the Narendra Modi Stadium in some fiery fashion. His innings, that comprised of 8 sixes, and 5 fours. propelled PBKS to their first IPL final in over a decade.
Shreyas Iyer-led PBKS will now face Royal Challengers Bengaluru on June 3 at the same venue again, setting up a mouth-watering finale where, regardless of the outcome, a first-time IPL champion will be crowned.
