BREAKING: India & Pakistan Fined For Maintaining Slow Over-Rate During Their Recent Clash

The India-Pakistan encounters always tend to stimulate cricket fans across the globe. The matches are extremely rare and come to fall once in multiple months, as both the nations do not face each other in bilateral series in any of the formats, due to political and historic conflicts.

India vs Pakistan – The enthralling clash between two arch-rivals took place the last Sunday (August 28). The highly-anticipated game turned out to be a last-over thriller as the Indian batters managed to hold their nerves in the run-chase and register a significant morale-boosting victory.

Hardik Pandya, The marquee Indian all-rounder stole the show with a dream outing. The right-hander managed to scalp three wickets with the ball and played an incredible knock of 33 off 17, remaining unbeaten in the high-pressure run-chase. The knock included the winning runs (maximum).

The fans now keenly anticipate another couple of battles between India and Pakistan in the same ongoing elite Asian competition. The teams will possibly face each other once in the upcoming Super 4 leg and in the Final on September 11 (Sunday).

India and Pakistan face sanctions:

Meanwhile, A significant development has emerged from the ICC as both India and Pakistan players have been fined a whopping 40% of their match fees by the match referee namely Jeff Crowe. The sanctions were imposed after the teams maintained a slow-over rate. Both the captains accepted the sanctions and agree to pay the fine respectively.

Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Pakistan captain Babar Azam received a lot of flack from the experts for their laid-back approach during the clash. This ultimately resulted in the bowlers of both teams having to bowl with one extra fielder in the 30-yeard-circle during both innings of the match (due to maintaining a slow over-rate).

Here’s what the official MCC rule reads:

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