By Admin 
Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya has been fined 10% of his match fee for violating Level 1 of the code of conduct for IPL players and team officials. Besides, he has also been given one demerit point. In fact, in the match against Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday, Hardik had dropped the bails in anger after missing a catch and hitting a four.
BCCI said in its statement that Hardik Pandya was found violating Article 2.2 of the IPL Code of Conduct. This relates to the misuse of cricket equipment or clothing, ground equipment or fixtures and fittings during a match. Hardik, while going back towards the run-up, hit the wicket bails hard.
Why was Hardik Pandya angry?
In the 10th over of Kolkata Knight Riders’ innings, Hardik became very angry with his team’s fielding. Rovman Powell fired in the air on the second ball of this over, it would have been an easy catch at deep backward square leg, but due to the confusion of Deepak Chahar and Robin Minz, this catch was missed. Although this catch was of Chahar, but he did not try because he thought that Minz would catch this catch. Manish Pandey hit a four on his next ball, on the fourth ball of the same over, Pandey hit another four and after this captain Hardik got angry.
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Hardik Pandya admitted his mistake and accepted the punishment given by the match referee. Let us tell you that Hardik did not play in the last few matches due to injury. Mumbai Indians are already out of the playoff race of IPL 2026.
Mumbai Indians lost by 4 wickets
The top order of Mumbai Indians once again disappointed, Ryan Rickelton was out after scoring 6 runs and Rohit Sharma was out after scoring 15 runs. Naman Dheer could not even open the account and Suryakumar Yadav once again flopped, scoring 15 runs. Tilak Verma scored 20 and Hardik Pandya scored 26 runs, in the end Corbin Bosch scored 32 runs in 18 balls to take Mumbai to the score of 147.
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While chasing the target, Manish Pandey played an important inning of 45 runs in 33 balls, for which he received the Player of the Match award. He came out to bat for the first time this year. Rovman Powell scored 40 runs in 30 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 4 fours. Kolkata won by 4 wickets with 7 balls remaining.