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.
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, six World Test Championship points have been deducted from the West Indies’ points total.
Brathwaite pleaded guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no need for a formal hearing. On-field umpires Joel Wilson and Gregory Brathwaite, third umpire Leslie Reifer and fourth umpire Nigel Duguid leveled the charge.
Forgettable series for West Indies
The latest slow over-rate offence just sums up the poor two-match Test series for the West Indies. With the bat, they never arrived in the four innings. South Africa’s bowling attack comprising Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi and Anrich Nortje was all over them from Day 1 of the opening Test.
Apart from a lonely effort from one of the batsmen, the trio of pacers never allowed them to settle. To make things worse for them, Keshav Maharaj also took a hattrick to derail their chase in the second Test. With a long home season, they would be looking to forget this series as soon as possible and move on. The Caribbean team will face Australia and Pakistan as well later in the summer after the limited-overs series against South Africa.
