The Rajasthan Royals (RR) skipper, Sanju Samson has received has fine of ₹12 lakhs after his side maintained a slow over rate in an IPL 2023 match against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Wednesday. The fine would probably mean nothing but a word of caution for Samson as the joy and satisfaction of registering a win over CSK for the first time in Chepauk since 2008 was far greater.
The IPL release regarding the same read: “Rajasthan Royals have been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 match 17 against Chennai Super Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai on Wednesday. As it was the team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, captain Sanju Samson was fined ₹12 lakh.”
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There is no denying the fact that RR pulled off a thrilling win despite the rampaging MS Dhoni a six or a four off the final ball of the match to walk away with a three-run victory.
Much of the credit must go to Sandeep Sharma for nailing back-to-back yorkers – one outside off-stump to Jadeja and one to Dhoni – when CSK needed 6 runs off 2 balls. And he did that after Dhoni had muscled him for a couple of sixes earlier in the same over.
Talking about the game as per the quotes in Hindustan Times, Sanju Samson said, “You have to give credit to the boys. The bowlers kept their cool at the end and bowled really well, we also held on to our catches. I don’t have good memories at Chepauk, never won here and wanted to win today.”
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He further added, “The ball was gripping and hence, we brought Zampa in as the impact player. We had a good powerplay with Rutu getting out and the thought was if we can get out of the powerplay without giving away too much then we have the spinners to do the job.”
The victory took RR to the top of the IPL 2023 points table with three wins in four outings. The best side on paper has so far delivered the goods on the field too. Samson, who got out for a two-ball duck, would hope to get back amongst runs but moreover, he would want his team to continue with the winning momentum.
