Chennai and Lucknow clash in the 34th match of the IPL at the Ekana Stadium on Friday (April 19). Chasing 177 runs, Lucknow won by 8 wickets with 6 balls in hand.

CSK Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad counted the penalty after losing the match. On the other hand, despite playing a winning innings of 82 runs off 53 balls, Lucknow's captain Rahul was fined. BCCI has punished the captains of the two teams for not being able to complete the bowling quota of 20 overs in the stipulated time.

Since Lucknow and Chennai have committed such offenses for the first time in the current IPL, only the captains have been fined. As usual, Rahul and Ruturaj were fined 12 lakhs in Indian currency for the first violation of the IPL code of conduct. It is also warned that the penalty will be doubled if the same mistake is repeated in the tournament.

According to the IPL code of conduct, only the captain is fined Rs. 12 lakh for the first time for slow over rate. For a second offense in the same tournament, the captain is fined Rs 24 lakh and the rest of the team, including impact players, is fined Rs 6 lakh or 25 percent of the match fee.

And for the third time, the captain has to pay a fine of Rs 30 lakh and be out of the field for one match. Along with that, the rest of the team is fined 12 lakh rupees or 50 percent of the match fee.

Dhoni touched a new milestone in IPL

Age 42 has passed still young in performance Mahendra Singh Dhoni. His storm can be seen in every match with the bat in the current IPL. In the last match against Lucknow Super Giants, he scored 28 runs off 9 balls with a strike rate of over 300.

On Friday (April 20), the innings reached a unique milestone in the IPL. Dhoni became the first wicketkeeper in IPL history to reach the milestone of 5000 runs.

However, as a batter, Dhoni had touched this milestone long ago. He scored 516 runs in 24 fifties after batting 223 innings in 257 matches. However, out of 257 matches, Dhoni kept wicket in 250 innings. In other words, he did not keep wicket in 7 matches. Dhoni reached the 5,000-run milestone against Lucknow on Friday, batting as a wicketkeeper.

Before Dhoni, no other wicketkeeper-batsman in the history of IPL could touch the milestone of 5000 runs. So far in the history of the franchise league, 7 cricketers have crossed the milestone of 5000 runs. But none of them are wicketkeepers except Dhoni.

Dhoni had faced 34 balls by batting 5 innings so far in the current IPL season. Collected 87 runs. He never got out. Hit 7 fours and 8 sixes. That is, Dhoni has collected runs at a strike-rate of 255.88 in this year's IPL.

Dhoni is great not only with the bat but also as a wicket keeper. He has kept wicket in 250 innings in IPL. 143 catches and 42 stumpings. Dhoni's total number of wickets as a wicketkeeper in the league is 185.