For abusing cricket equipment during an IPL 2026 match against KKR on Wednesday Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya was fined 10 percent of his match fee and received a Demerit Point. Hardik was fined in the tenth over of KKR's innings when he angrily struck the bails with his hand as he went back to take his run-up. He was later judged to have breached Article 2.2 of the IPL Code of Conduct: "abuse of cricket equipment or clothing, ground equipment or fixtures and fittings during a Match." Mumbai Indians lost to KKR by four wickets keeping the latter's IPL 2026 playoff hopes alive. Hardik admits Mumbai were below par with bat MI skipper Said : "Yeah I mean quite entertaining. Definitely as a batting group we were 20 short. I think we lost a lot of wickets in powerplay but if Tilak and I would have stayed longer and we had stitched a couple of more partnerships and got those 15-20 runs I think we would have had a decent chance." Also Read | He added that he enjoyed playing on a wicket which offered the bowlers something: "I mean to be very honest I don't mind playing on this sort of wickets where bowlers have something to do. I think IPL is becoming quite batting-dominated. Bowlers are feeling helpless. I think today's game kind of gave bowlers something as well from the wicket which kind of makes them come and bowl some good balls make batsmen play some good cricket and score runs. So, I kind of enjoyed it." He also spoke of Mumbai Indians poor fielding this season Hardik Admitted : "I don't know. I think throughout the season, we've been quite poor in fielding. I think we have dropped a lot of catches, which obviously no one wants to do it. But in that part of the game I think there is no hiding away. I mean if you get chances if you want to win games you need to grab all the chances0 even half chances as well. But yeah when you drop chances which can change the game it's always you are chasing the game." Hardik added that they want to give something to their fans, and that his next match will be an ESA game for kids. "Yeah, absolutely. So, it's an ESA game. It's for the children. We just want to make sure that we come and get smile on those 25,000 kids and let them come and watch us play and we entertain them, make them happy. I think it will be a lifetime memories for them."