Mumbai: Mahela Jayawardene has been appointed as the stand-in captain for Kings XI Punjab since the regular captain Kumar Sangakkara is out serving a one-match ban.
"Jayawardene will lead the side when they face Mumbai Indians at Brabourne on Tuesday", Colonel Arvinder Singh, Senior Vice President and Head of Cricket Operations, Kings XI Punjab, said via a press release.
The ban on was imposed on Sangakkara as punishment for a slow over rate during KXIP’s last match against the Kolkata Knight Riders at Mohali.
At the end of the match, Kings XI Punjab were assessed to be one over behind the required rate after allowances were taken into consideration.
Since it was KXIP’s third offence of the season, captain Kumar Sangakkara was fined USD 50,000 and banned from playing in the team’s next match under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over rate offences.
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