KL Rahul, the skipper of the Lucknow Super Giants, was fined Rs 12 lakh after his side maintained a sluggish over-rate in their Indian Premier League encounter against the Mumbai Indians on Saturday.

Rahul scored a century in his 100th IPL game as LSG defeated MI by 18 runs.

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“The Lucknow Super Giants have been fined after they maintained a slow over-rate during their TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 Match 26 against Mumbai Indians at the Brabourne Stadium – CCI, Mumbai on Saturday,” the IPL said in a statement.

“As it was the team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, captain KL Rahul was fined Rs 12 lakhs,” it added.

This was MI’s sixth consecutive defeat in the current iteration of the league, while debutants LSG won their fourth game to join Gujarat Titans at the top of the table.

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Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma accepted “full responsibility” for the team’s half-dozen IPL 2022 losses. Following the defeat against LSG, Rohit agreed that a course correction is required to get the campaign back on track.

The captain has had a difficult period, scoring only 114 runs in six matches. His best possible score is 41.

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“If I know what’s going wrong, I’d correct it but it’s not coming off. I’m trying to prepare myself in the way I prepare for every game, that is no different. It’s not coming off,” Rohit said after MI was defeated by the Lucknow Super Giants on Saturday by an innings and 18 runs.

“I take the full responsibility of not putting the team in the situation of what they expect from me. I back myself to go out there and enjoy the game and doing what I have been doing all these years,” he added.