The 29th match of IPL 2025 was played between the teams of Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals. Delhi Capitals lost by 12 runs in the match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium. This is the first defeat of Delhi under the captaincy of Akshar Patel. After this defeat, Akshar Patel has suffered another major setback. The BCCI imposed a huge fine against Akshar Patel, taking big action. In the current season, Akshar Patel made this mistake for the first time.
Big action against Akshar Patel
Delhi Capital captain Akshar Patel has been fined Rs 12 lakh for the slow over speed of his team during the IPL 2025 match against Mumbai Indians in Delhi on Sunday night. According to Article 2.22 of the IPL code of conduct, a captain is fined Rs 12 lakh for a slow over speed offense for the first time in a season. Next time repeating this mistake, they will be fined more. However, the IPL has now removed the match ban rule.
In its statement of the IPL, “This was the first crime of Akshar Patel’s team under Article 2.22 of the IPL code of conduct, which is related to minimum over-rate crimes, hence Patel has been fined Rs 12 lakh. Patel has accepted the crime and the decision of the officials is final and binding. Let me tell you, before Akshar in the current season, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant of Lucknow Super Giants, Ryan Parag of Rajasthan Royals and Sanju Samson and RCB’s silver Patidar have also been fined due to slow over rate.
Delhi’s team lost the match
In this match, the Mumbai team batted first and scored 205 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. In response, the Delhi team scored 135 runs in 11.3 overs at the loss of 2 wickets. Here she looked very close to the victory, but after this, Delhi lost all their wickets one after the other and scored 193 runs in 19 overs.