{"id":154689,"date":"2026-04-13T07:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=154689"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:14:24","slug":"ipl-2026-tim-david-fined-for-breaching-code-of-conduct-hardik-pandya-penalised-for-slow-over-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=154689","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Tim David fined for breaching code of conduct; Hardik Pandya penalised for slow over-rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70857715\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Royal Challengers Bengaluru all-rounder Tim David was on Monday fined 25 per cent of his match fee and docked one demerit point for \u201cdisobeying an umpire\u2019s instruction\u201d during the IPL game against Mumbai Indians.<\/p>\n<p>David was guilty of breaching Level 1 of IPL\u2019s code of conduct for players and team officials, while Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya was also fined for maintaining slow over-rate.<\/p>\n<p>The IPL said in a statement that David was found to have breached the Article 2.4 of the IPL\u2019s code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Pandya was fined after RCB\u2019s innings took a little over two hours to finish.<\/p>\n<p><b>Also read | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-mi-vs-csk-over-rate-interruptions-pose-threat-to-t20s-mumbai-indians-royal-challengers-bengaluru\/article70856306.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prolonged interruptions, slow over-rate in MI vs RCB pose threats to the very purpose of T20s<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHardik Pandya, Captain, MI, has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate. As this was his team\u2019s first offence of the season under Article 2.22 of the IPL\u2019s Code of Conduct, he has been fined Rs 12 lakhs,\u201d the IPL said.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the contest had players from both teams taking several pauses amid hot and humid conditions. While the first innings ended in two hours and one minute, the second innings finished in two hours and four minutes.<\/p>\n<p>David is said to have not handed over the ball to the umpires twice during RCB\u2019s innings in which the burly Australian scored a quick 16-ball 34 not out with three sixes and two fours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first incident occurred when the umpires changed the ball during the 18th over (17.2) of RCB\u2019s batting innings. He wanted to have a look at the ball and did not hand it over despite being repeatedly asked to do so,\u201d the IPL said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second incident occurred during the 20th over (19.2), when he again did not hand over the ball to the umpires, amounting to repeated failure to comply with the instructions or directives of the umpires,\u201d the IPL said, adding that David has admitted to the offence and accepted the sanction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Apr 13, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/tim-david-umpire-fined-code-of-conduct-rcb-vs-mi-ipl-2026-hardik-pandya-slow-overrate\/article70857715.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru all-rounder Tim David was on Monday fined 25 per cent of his match fee and docked one demerit point for \u201cdisobeying an umpire\u2019s instruction\u201d during the IPL game against Mumbai Indians. David was guilty of breaching Level 1 of IPL\u2019s code of conduct for players and team officials, while Mumbai Indians skipper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PTI04_12_2026_000681B.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-EeZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}