England lost the first test quite heavily.
England have been fined their full match fee and docked five World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow pace of overs during their nine-wicket loss to Australia in the first Ashes Test, cricket’s world governing body said on Saturday. said.
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England have been fined their full match fee and fined five World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow pace of overs during the nine-wicket loss to Australia in the first Ashes Test, cricket’s world governing body said on Saturday.
With the ban by match referee David Boon taking into account the time allowance, Joe Root’s side was judged to be five overs short of target.
Players are fined 20% of their match fee for each over they fail to bowl in the stipulated time, while the team is fined one point for each over.
The ICC said Australian batsman Travis Head was on Thursday fined 15% of his match fee for using foul language in the 77th over of his first innings when he was thrashed by England all-rounder Ben Stokes.
A demerit point was also added to Head’s disciplinary record after he committed the offense for the first time in a 24-month period.
When a player receives four or more demerit points in a two-year period, they are converted into suspension points which can bring a ban.
Nathan Lyon captured the long-awaited 400th Test hunt and led Australia to an emphatic nine-wicket victory in Tests, with England losing eight wickets on the fourth day in Brisbane.
The second of the five Tests will take place in Adelaide from December 16 to 20.
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