The Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson has been fined INR 24 lakh for his team’s second slow-over rate offence in the IPL 2025 games against Gujarat Titans on April 10 at Ahmedabad.
As per Article 2.22 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct, a captain is fined INR 24 lakh for a second over-rate offence in a season.
Rajasthan were earlier penalised for the same offence in the match against Chennai Super Kings last month at Barsapara Stadium in Guwahati.
Stand-in captain Riyan Parag was charged with INR 12 lakhs for the slow over rate offence.
With the second offence in the IPL 2025 season, Samson was fined with INR 24 lakh.
“Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson has been fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during Match No. 23 of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 against Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad,” the IPL said in a statement on Thursday.
“As this was his team’s second offence of the season under Article 2.22 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct, which pertains to minimum over-rate offences, Samson was fined INR 24 lakhs.
“The rest of the members of the Playing XI, including the Impact Player, will be fined either INR six lakhs or 25 per cent of their respective match fees, whichever is lesser,” an IPL media release read.
Rajasthan Royals suffered a 58 run defeat against Gujarat Titans with Sai Sudharsan’s impressive fifty and disciplined bowling attack. After dazzline knocks from Sudharsan, Jos Buttler, Shah Rukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia helped the side to post 217 runs.
Despite fighting knocks from Shimron Hetmyer (52) and Sanju Samson (41), Rajasthan eventually bowled out for 159 runs in 19.1 overs.
Speaking in the post match conference, Sanju Samson said, “We gave away 15-20 runs extra in the bowling.”
“When we needed momentum, we lost wickets. With Hettie [Shimron Hetmyer], sixes and fours kept coming. But I lost my wicket and that’s where we lost the game,” he added.
He also appreciated Jofra Archer for an impressive start with the ball. “The way Jofra started was good, he picked up Shubman’s wicket. Then we went off plan. We planned something but they executed something else. We will have to look at that tomorrow,” Samson noted.
Samson also spoke about the side’s struggle ability to chase down big totals under pressure.
“When you lose games, we also feel should we have chased? Should we have done something else?” he reflected.
“We want to be a team that wins games while chasing, not just win batting first,” Sanju Samson concluded.
Rajasthan Royals will play their next match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in April 13 at Sawai Mansingh Stadium.
