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Hardik Pandya, captain of the Mumbai Indians, has been fined 10 percent of his match fee and handed one Demerit Point for breaching Level 1 of the IPL Code of Conduct during MI\u2019s IPL 2026 clash against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens on Wednesday, May 20.<\/span><\/p>\n The incident took place on the fourth ball of the tenth over in KKR\u2019s innings, when the 32-year-old struck the stumps with force while returning to his run-up, knocking the bails off. Pandya accepted the charge of \u2018abusive\u2019 conduct, after which match referee Rajiv Seth handed down the penalty. It stated:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHardik Pandya was found to have breached Article 2.2 of the IPL\u2019s Code of Conduct, which pertains to \u2018abuse of cricket equipment or clothing, ground equipment or fixtures and fittings during a Match.\u2019\u201d [via IPL<\/span>]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking in regards to the match, the visitors managed 147\/8 in 20 overs after being put in to bat, with Corbin Bosch leading the scoring with an unbeaten 32 off 18 deliveries. <\/span><\/p>\n Chasing the goal, Manish Pandey (45 off 33) and Rovman Powell (40 off 30) made key contributions as Kolkata Knight Riders registered a four-wicket victory with seven balls remaining to remain in contention for the playoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n Mumbai Indians have had a disappointing IPL 2026 season, currently placed ninth within the standings with only eight points from 13 matches after registering just 4 victories. Captain Hardik Pandya has also failed to satisfy expectations, managing 172 runs in nine games at a mean of 21.50 and a strike rate of 128.35, with a highest rating of 40.<\/span><\/p>\n The all-rounder\u2019s bowling returns have also been underwhelming, with only 4 wickets from nine innings at a mean of 64.75 and a strike rate of 34.0, while leaking runs at an economy rate of 11.42. Mumbai will play their final league-stage fixture against Rajasthan Royals at Wankhede Stadium on Sunday, May 24.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the most recent cricket news here, like us on <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hardik Pandya, captain of the Mumbai Indians, has been fined 10 percent of his match fee and handed one Demerit Point for breaching Level 1 of the IPL Code of Conduct during MI\u2019s IPL 2026 clash against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens on Wednesday, May 20. The incident took place on the fourth ball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20675],"tags":[16719,10016,22770,9843,13008,2064,11781,31210],"class_list":["post-338378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-abusive","tag-conduct","tag-hardik","tag-ipl","tag-kkr","tag-match","tag-pandya","tag-penalised"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338381,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338378\/revisions\/338381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hardik Pandya Struggles To Make An Impact In IPL 2026 Campaign<\/span><\/h3>\n
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