England coped heavy fines after their loss to Australia in the first Test match at Gabba. The whole team was fined 100% of their match fees for maintaining slow over-rates throughout the first Test match!
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It is not all for England as they were found to be 5 overs short in the Test match! According to ICC rules, each team will be docked a WTC point for each over short! England now lost 5 WTC points alone after being found to be 5 overs short at Gabba!
"Match referee David Boon has also penalized England 100% of their match fee for falling five overs short of the targets after adjusting for time allowances. Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel charges players 20% of their match fee for every over the team falls short on," stated ICC in their media release.
England were earlier docked two WTC points during the India series and currently stands at 7th position with just 9 points from 5 Test matches! If England keeps on doing this offense, it would be very tough for them to climb up the points table and make it to the WTC Final in this cycle as well!
Australia's Player of the Match Travis Head too was on the receiving end at Gabba after he was found to be using audible offensive language in their first innings. The incident occurred in the 77th over of Australia's first innings where Head lost his control when he was beaten by a Ben Stokes delivery!
"Travis Head was fined 15% of his match fee for breaching Article 2.3 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, relating to the use of an audible obscenity during an International Match. He also received one demerit point, which is his first offense in a 24-month period," added the ICC statement.
Coming to the 5-match Ashes series, Australia have quite comfortably won the first Test match at Gabba by a huge margin of 9 wickets. The second Test match which is a Day/Night affair will start on the 16th of December at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide.
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