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Saturday, January 19, 2008

DOUBLE-BLOW FOR AUSSIES


While India was busy celebrating their victory over the Aussies the ICC match referee mike proctor didn’t was Aussies to leave Perth empty handed so he gave them a gift - he fined Ponting's team for slow over-rate.

Ya, that’s right.Australia not only lost the third Test against India at Perth but were also fined for maintaining a slow over-rate in the match.
Aussies were two overs short of their target even after taking into consideration the time allowances.
According to the ICC governing over-rate penalties, the Australian players were fined five per cent of their match fees for every over their side failed to bowl in the allotted time. The captain was fined double that amount.
So, punter (ponting) ended paying fined 20 per cent of his match fee while the other Aussie players were fined 10 per cent of their match fee.

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