Pakistan and Bangladesh have been penalized with a deduction of World Test Championship (WTC) points for slow over rates during their match in Rawalpindi
Pakistan and Bangladesh have been fined and had their World Test Championship (WTC) points docked for maintaining a slow over-rate in the first Test at Rawalpindi, which the visitors won by 10 wickets.
Pakistan were found to be six overs short of the target and consequently had six WTC points deducted and were fined 30 percent of their match fee.
Bangladesh were three overs short and thus had three WTC points docked along with a 15 percent fine on their match fee.
This marks Bangladesh’s first point deductions in the current WTC cycle, while Pakistan had already been docked two points during the Perth Test in 2023.
According to Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, relating to minimum over-rate offences, teams are fined five percent of their match fee for each over their side fails to bowl within the allotted time.
Additionally, Article 16.11.2 of the ICC World Test Championship playing conditions states that one point is penalized for each over short.
Both captains, Shan Masood and Najmul Hossain Shanto, admitted to the violations and accepted the sanctions imposed by match referee Ranjan Magugalle.
In a separate incident, veteran Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan was fined 10 percent of his match fee and received a demerit point for a Level 1 breach of Article 2.9 of the ICC Code of Conduct, which addresses “throwing a ball (or any other item of cricket equipment such as a water bottle) at or near a Player, Player Support Personnel, Umpire, Match Referee, or any other third person in an inappropriate and/or dangerous manner during an International Match.”
The breach occurred in the 33rd over of Pakistan’s second innings when Shakib threw the ball inappropriately towards Mohammad Rizwan, who was not ready to face the next delivery.
The 37-year-old accepted the sanction for this first offence in the current 24-month period for accumulating demerit points.
The charges were laid by on-field umpires Richard Kettleborough and Adrian Holdstock, with third umpire Michael Gough and fourth umpire Rashid Riaz involved in the proceedings.
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