Rahul Tripathi, the Maharashtra and Kolkata Knight Riders batsman, was fined Rs 500 by the Pune city police on Friday as he was caught flouting the covid-19 protocols.
It has been reported that the 30-year-old was travelling in a car in Pune on Friday afternoon without wearing a mask. He was then pulled over by the police at a check-post near Khadi machine chowk.
Police sub-inspector Santosh Sonawane, who is posted at the Kondhwa police station, gives the details of the incident.
“At the said checkpoint we saw a man in a four-wheeler without a mask. When we stopped him, he told us that he was a well-known personality. We told him that he had violated the rules and had to pay a fine to which he agreed and paid ₹500 and went away,” Sonawane was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying.
Rahul Tripathi impressive in the IPL, but remains inconsistent
Rahul Tripathi flourished in his maiden IPL season – in 2017 – for the now-defunct Rising Pune Supergiant. Promoted to open the batting, he struck seven thirty-plus scores tallying a total of 391 runs at a strike rate of 146.44. His blazing knock of 93 off 52 balls against KKR rose him in the limelight.
However, the right-hander couldn’t replicate the same success in the next couple of seasons at Rajasthan Royals. In 20 games for the Royals, he managed 367 runs at a strike rate of 128.77, as the management kept him shuffling up and down the order, more overly keeping him away from his favoured top-order position.
The Knight Riders roped him ahead of IPL 2020. While Rahul Tripathi has been impressive for KKR – 391 runs in 14 games striking at 146.44 – he has rather remained inconsistent, and unable to convert his starts into a big score.
This season too, batting at number 3 for KKR, he started off IPL 2021 with a sizzling knock of 29-ball 53 against the Sunrisers Hyderabad in their first game, on the Chennai pitch where batting has been a challenge, but then couldn’t notch up any other fifty in the next 6 games.
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