IPL 2025, GT vs MI: Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya fined ₹12 lakh for slow over rate

Mumbai Indians’ captain Hardik Pandya celebrates the wicket of Gujarat Titans’ Rahul Tewatia during an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 T20 cricket match between Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians, at the Narendra Modi Stadium, in Ahmedabad on March 29, 2025.
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Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya has been fined ₹12 lakh after his team maintained a slow over rate in their Indian Premier League match against Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad.

Five-time champions MI lost to GT by 36 runs at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Saturday (March 29, 2025).

“Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya has been fined after his team maintained a slow over rate during Match No. 9 of the TATA Indian Premier League [IPL] 2025 against Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad,” the IPL said in a statement on Sunday (March 30, 2025).

“As this was his team’s first offence of the season under Article 2.2 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct, which pertains to minimum over-rate offences, Pandya was fined INR 12 lakhs,” it added in the statement.

GT posted 196 runs on a black-soil pitch which was used in Ahmedabad for the clash and MI struggled in their chase to eventually finish at 160 for six, as Gujarat registered their first win of the ongoing campaign.

This was MI’s second successive loss and they are yet to open their account.