KKR Captain Eoin Morgan fined 100% match fees, players lose Rs 6 lakh over slow over-rate

While the Kolkata Knight Riders were celebrating a big win over the Mumbai Indians—their main tormentor in the IPL on September 23, they also have to lose a few of their earnings from the big game due to failure to maintain the stipulated over-rate. 

The Knight Riders have committed the offence for the second time and hence all the players have been penalised 25 per cent of their match fees while the skipper Eoin Morgan has been penalised all his match fees. Morgan has been charged Rs 24 lakh while all players have been charged Rs 6 lakh from their earnings from the last game.

“As it was the team’s second offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over rate offences, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Eoin Morgan was fined Rs 24 lakhs. The rest of the members of the playing XI were each fined lesser of either Rs 6 lakhs or 25 percent of their individual match fee,” IPL governing council said in a statement.

The Knight Riders swept their most formidable opponent in the history of the IPL by a big margin of seven wickets and by chasing a modest target of 156 runs with 29 balls to spare.

The men in purple and gold jumped from the seventh position to the fourth position on the points table on the back of big wins over the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Mumbai Indians in two consecutive games.