Pakistan fined for slow over-rate against New Zealand

[SL_Fan]

Pakistan fined for slow over-rate against New Zealand

Pakistan has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate against New Zealand during the second Test in Hamilton which ended on Tuesday.

Richie Richardson of the Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees imposed the fine after Azhar Ali’s side was ruled to be five overs short of its target when time allowances were taken into consideration.

In accordance with Article 2.5.1 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minor over-rate offences, players are fined 10 per cent of their match fees for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time, with the captain fined double that amount.

As such, Azhar has been fined 100 per cent of his match fee, while his players have received 50 per cent fines. Azhar pleaded guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no need for a formal hearing.

The charge was laid by on-field umpires Sundaram Ravi and Simon Fry and third umpire Ian Gould and fourth official Shaun Haig.

 

[kingusama92]

Salt, meet wound.

 

[Statsman]

Was expected to happen as they had no spinners in the side. Poor planning - setting yourself up for failure.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Playing 4 seamers! what do you expect!

 

[AamchiMumbaikar]

100% fine is unfair on Azhar.

 

[ahmadharis1]

as if it wasn't already bad enough

 

[ahmedwaqas92]

You there should be this rule that if you're captaining in someone else's place and you produce slow overrate, you can never captain again !! - ICC RULE

 

[Square Drive]

One more and he gets suspended right?

Good riddance!

 

[The intelligent Supporter]

feel kinda bad for Azhar. Got one match and bottled it up this bad.

 

[Markhor]

Look, I despise slow over rates in cricket in general so I'm not going to excuse Pakistan when we are guilty of it so no complaints about the sanctions. 4 seamers or not - just get on with it.

 

[Boi]

One more and he gets suspended right?

Good riddance!

So Pak fans now want their best Test bat to get suspended, great. We deserve these kinds of losses tbh.

 

[PakLFC]

Is there anything Azhar can do with some speed?

 

[Sherlock]

They should be fined for their hideous runrate too...

 

[Barragan]

You know what?

In a way, they deserved to have their pay be cut for such a pathetic display and if the pcb wanted to punish them for that performance, then I'm sure this would be the punishment.

 

[ExplicitAI]

Why on earth did he play 4 fast bowlers? Only Azhar to bench Yasir Shah tbh.

 

[Square Drive]

So Pak fans now want their best Test bat to get suspended, great. We deserve these kinds of losses tbh.

Lol to be honest I just woke up feeling like that, and all my posts at that time were just in rage.

Still doesn't change the fact that Azhar is a pathetic captain, though.

 

[Zohaib Shah]

PCB should think twice before making Azhar a captain.

 

[ahmedwaqas92]

PCB should think twice before making Azhar a captain.

Well.....PCB doesn't really think to begin with.....So there goes that theory