Team India Handed 2-Point Penalty By ICC, Sanction Sees Drop In WTC Standings To… | Cricket News

After struggling a defeat to South Africa by an innings and 32 runs, the Indian cricket staff have been handed a penalty of two factors by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The penalty was imposed as India failed to keep up the required over-rate through the Centurion Test, prompting the ICC to deduct 2 essential factors from the staff’s World Test Championship (WTC) factors desk standings. Not simply that, as a part of the penalty the Indian staff has additionally been fined 10% of their match price.

As per a launch issued by the ICC, the sanction was imposed after India have been dominated to be two overs wanting the goal.

As per Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which pertains to minimal over-rate offences, the gamers are fined 5% of their match price for each over their facet fails to bowl within the allotted time.

After the Test loss, India discovered themselves at No.5 with 16 factors from three Tests and a factors share of 44.44. However, the deduction of factors for the slow-over price additional weakens India’s place within the standings, inflicting them to slide beneath Australia to No.6, with 14 factors and a factors share of 38.89.

India captain Rohit Sharma admitted that India weren’t adequate to emerge victorious in opposition to South Africa within the first Test on Thursday.
India have been fully bamboozled by the hosts, who dictated the circulation of the sport and clinched a victory by an innings and 32 runs.

After the sport, Rohit did not maintain again to provide his tackle the sport and mentioned, “We were not good enough to win. Having been put into bat, KL batted well to get us that score but then we didn’t exploit the conditions with the ball and then again didn’t show up today with the bat. If we have to win Test matches, we have to come together collectively, and we didn’t do that.”

“Guys have come here before; we know what to expect and everyone has their own plan. Our batters were challenged and we didn’t adapt well. This is a boundary-scoring ground; we saw them score many but we need to understand the opposition and their strengths as well. We didn’t bat well in both innings; that’s why we stand here. Not too many positives to finish the game within 3 days, but KL showed what we need to do on this sort of pitch,” Rohit added.

With ANI inputs