Rahul Tripathi
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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.

Rahul Tripathi
Rahul Tripathi (Image Credits: Twitter)

“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.

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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.

Rahul Tripathi
Rahul Tripathi (Image Credit: Twitter)

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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