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Australia fined for slow over-rate in Melbourne Test against India
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Australia fined for slow over-rate in Melbourne Test against India

| @indiablooms | 29 Dec 2020, 03:30 pm

Dubai/UNI: Australia were fined 40 per cent of their match fee and penalised four ICC World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow over-rate against India in the second Test of the Border–Gavaskar Trophy, which ended in Melbourne on Tuesday.

India produced a clinical performance to beat Australia by eight wickets in the second Test and level the four-match series 1-1 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

David Boon of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees imposed the sanction after Tim Paine’s side was ruled to be two overs short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration.

"In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minimum over-rate offences, players are fined 20 per cent of their match fees for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time," ICC said in a statement.

"In addition, as per Article 16.11.2 of the ICC World Test Championship playing conditions, a side is penalised two points for each over short. Consequently, four World Test Championship points have been deducted from Australia’s points total," he added.

Paine pleaded guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no need for a formal hearing.

On-field umpires Bruce Oxenford and Paul Reiffel, third umpire Paul Wilson and fourth umpire Gerard Abood leveled the charge. 

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