Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson fined thirty percent of his match fees on Tuesday at the Arun Jaitley Stadium for his argument with the umpires over his controversial dismissal against the home team, the Delhi Capitals.

Samson was leading the Royals to a convincing win at 86 runs as they pursued a target of 222 runs. But DC bowler Mukesh Kumar ended his innings as he attempted to knock him over long-on but Shai Hope caught him, staying within the boundary. Before giving the RR skipper, the umpires carefully inspected the catch and examined it very close.

However, Samson did not appear happy with the result because he believed Shai Hope had crossed the line and got into an argument with the umpires. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) fined the Royals’ wicketkeeper heavily for violating the BCCI code of conduct, even though RR did not win the match.

On May 07, 2024, at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, during Match 56 of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 against the Delhi Capitals, Sanju Samson was fined thirty percent of his match fees for violating the IPL Code of Conduct, the official statement stated.

According to IPL Code of Conduct Article 2.8, Samson committed a Level 1 offense. He acknowledged the offense and consented to the Match Referee’s punishment. The decision of the Match Referee is final and binding for Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct, the statement continued.

The director of RR’s team, Kumar Sangakkara, also mentioned the challenges the umpires had in rendering the decision at pivotal points in the match.

Replays and angles play a role, and occasionally you may believe that the foot has been touched. However, it is a challenging call for the third umpire to make. That’s what happens in cricket; the game was at a critical point. Our viewpoints on it are divergent. In light of what the umpires ultimately decided, you have to support that choice. They will discuss it with the umpire and work things out if we have any other opinions. However, even with that dismissal, they arguably needed to have won that game, Sangakkara said.

The RR captain has already received punishment this year; for a slow over-rate during the game against the Gujarat Titans, Samson was assessed an INR 12 lakh fine.

Rajasthan Despite the defeat to DC, the Royals maintain a comfortable four-point advantage over the third-place Chennai Super Kings and are positioned second in the points standings.

Despite captain Sanju Samson’s knock of 86 runs, the Rajasthan Royals fell short by 20 runs against the Delhi Capitals in their 11th match of the season on Tuesday. The Rajasthan Royals were set to chase a target of 222 runs but lost both their openers during the powerplay but Samson and kept the hopes of a victory alive before he was dismissed by Mukesh Kumar.

Abhishek Porel and Jake Fraser-McGurk and scored half centuries as the Delhi Capitals posted 221/8 in their 20 overs against the Rajasthan Royals. Ravichandran Ashwin was the pick of the bowlers as he took 3 important wickets off his 4 overs. Yuzvendra Chahal became the first Indian to take 350 wickets in T20 cricket as he dismissed Rishabh Pant.

In reply, Rajasthan Royals were restricted to 201 for 8 with Kuldeep Yadav being the pick of the bowler for Delhi, returning with 2/25. Khaleel Ahmed (2/47) and Mukesh Kumar (2/30) also picked up two wickets each. Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson led Rajasthan’s chase with his 5th half-century of this IPL season. But his splendid knock of 86 runs off 46 balls (8×4, 6×6) went in vain after Shai Hope took a controversial catch at the edge of long-on boundary.

Other than Sanju Samson, openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Joss Buttler could not make an impact during the match. Jaiswal scored 4 runs off 2 deliveries while Buttler was dismissed at 19 runs off 17 deliveries. Other players including Riyan Parag scored 27 runs off 22 deliveries, Shubham Dubey scored 25 runs off 12 deliveries, Rovman Powell scored 13 runs, Donovan Ferreira lost his wicket at 1 run, Ravichandran Ashwin was dismissed at 2 runs, while Trent Boult and Avesh Khan remained unbeaten at 2 runs and 7 runs respectively.

 After yesterday’s IPL match, Delhi Capitals has moved to fifth place with 12 points and a net run rate of -0.316 while RR remained at number 2 with 16 points with a net run rate of 0.476.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) players had a terrifying experience as their flight from Lucknow to Kolkata was repeatedly diverted due to poor weather, forcing them to spend the night in Varanasi.

After defeating Lucknow Super Giants by 98 runs on Sunday, the Shreyas Iyer-led team flew for Kolkata at 5:45 p.m. on Monday. The squad was supposed to arrive around 7:25 p.m.

However, bad weather prevented the plane from landing in Kolkata, so the charter flight had to be diverted to Guwahati and then to Varanasi.

At 8:46 p.m., the KKR media team issued an update, stating, the KKR charter flight has been diverted to Guwahati due to inclement weather over Kolkata. The team just touched down here in Varanasi, the statement said.

At 9:43 p.m., there was another update, the team has permission to return to Kolkata via flight from Guwahati. Arrival time estimated: 11 p.m.

The officials were forced to divert the plane to Varanasi in midair after several attempts were made to land it to the scheduled place. However, the nightmare for the players and support team was not yet completed as they had to spend night in Varanasi.

The flight to Kolkata took off from Guwahati, with a landing planned for 11 PM. weather prevented them from landing again, even after multiple tries. Now redirected in midair to Varanasi. Arrived here just now, read the update at 1:15 a.m.

After spending the night in Varanasi, the KKR team is scheduled to depart for Kolkata this afternoon.

The team would be spending the night at a hotel in Varanasi. The final information at 3:00 am came from the KKR media team. Return flight to Kolkata TBD on Tuesday afternoon.

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Thankfully, KKR’s next match is on May 11 at Edens Garden against the Mumbai Indians. The final two league games for the two-time previous winners are against the Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad on May 13 and the Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati on May 19.

The severe heat has provided some relief to the inhabitants in Kolkata thanks to the weather, which is expected to stay gloomy and showery over the next several days.