India have been reprimanded for failing to meet the required over rate stipulated by the International Cricket Council in their last Test against South Africa in Centurion. All the players have been fined 20 per cent of their match fees while the team have been docked two points from their overall World Test Championship points.
The Virat Kohli-led side failed to reach the mark by one over and hence as per the regulations of the WTC, they were docked one point. Notably, the failure to reach the required level despite the allowance for “unavoidable delays”.
The charge of slow over-rate was levied by the match officials including the match referee Andy Pycroft, umpires Marais Erasmus, Adrian Holdstock, and Allahudien Paleker. Kohli accepted both the charge and sanction and hence there was no need of a hearing.
Earlier, they also had to lose two WTC points for failing to meet the required over-rate in the first Test of the series against England in Nottingham.
India have the most points on the points table of the World Test Championship points table with 54 points.
India defeated South Africa in the first Test of the series in Centurion and lead the series 1-0 with two games remaining.