Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill has been fined after his team maintained a slow over rate during their IPL 2024 match against Chennai Super Kings at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday night.
GT defeated CSK by 35 runs to keep their hopes of qualifying for the IPL 2024 playoffs alive.
This was Gill and his team’s second offence of the ongoing season and therefore, under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over rate offences, was fined heavily/
Gill was fined Rs 24 lakh while the rest of the members of the Playing XI, including the Impact Player, were each individually fined either Rs 6 lakh or 25 percent of their respective match fees, whichever is lesser.
Gill won’t mind the punishment considering his own performance which set the base for GT’s vital win over CSK – a result that continues their journey in IPL.
The opening batter scored his fourth century of IPL career, a brilliant 104 off 55 as he stitched a record stand of 210 runs for the first wicket with Sai Sudharsan.
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Gill belted nine fours and six sixes during his strokeful innings and the century was the 100th in the history of IPL.
Sudharsan soon followed the suit, completing a century of his own, the 101st of IPL since Brendon McCullum’s trailblazing 158 for Kolkata Knight Riders against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the first ever game back in 2008.
Thanks to their centuries, GT posted a mammoth 231/3 after batting first at the Narendra Modi Stadium. However, at one point, Gill thought that even that total won’t be enough.
“At one point we thought 250 was there for the taking. In the last 2-3 overs they bowled well also. Just had a feeling we were 10-15 short, not in terms of the match but in terms of the NRR going forward,” Gill said after the match.
Chasing 232, CSK managed 196/8 as the hosts recorded a 35-run win – their fifth of the season which lifted them from the bottom of the standings to eighth spot.
GT will next face KKR at home on Monday.
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