Australia opener Usman Khawaja has vented his frustration after the group misplaced 10 World Check Championship (WTC) factors for gradual over-rates in the course of the drawn Ashes collection in England.
Khawaja, additionally an Australian Cricketers’ Affiliation board member, had lobbied the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC), which final month softened penalties for gradual over-rates.
Australia, who retained the Ashes urn after the five-match collection led to a 2-2 draw, misplaced greater than a 3rd of the 28 factors they initially received for being 10 overs quick within the fourth check at Outdated Trafford.
“Don’t even get the prospect to bowl within the second innings at Manchester as a consequence of 2 days of rain and @ICC nonetheless concern fines and take 10 WTC factors off us for gradual over charges!” Khawaja posted on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter.
“That makes numerous sense…” added the 36-year-old, who completed because the main scorer of the enthralling collection.
Reigning world champions Australia at the moment are third within the WTC factors desk, behind Pakistan and India. The factors deduction widened the hole between Australia and the highest two.
Worse off than Australia, England have been fined a staggering 19 WTC factors after falling foul of the over-rate guidelines in 4 of the 5 matches.
The group beneath Ben Stokes staged a exceptional turnaround from being 2-0 down to attract the Ashes collection however gained solely 9 factors for his or her effort to be quantity 5, behind a West Indies facet, who stay winless after 4 matches.
Spin’s restricted position within the collection, particularly after Australia’s Nathan Lyon suffered an harm within the second match, led to over-rate delays.
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting put the onus on umpires to hurry up play by getting the gamers prepared for motion with out losing time.
“We’ve obtained to discover a manner to not be dropping a lot time in these video games,” Ponting stated on the ICC Overview.
Former England captain Nasser Hussain, nevertheless, insisted gradual over-rate “penalties ought to be harsh” as a result of it upset the paying followers.
“Tickets, particularly in England, are very costly. So that you need to get the total day,” he stated.
“Now some folks argue, nicely, you’re getting the leisure anyway. However I do assume, if you happen to pay for 90 overs, it is best to count on 90 overs.”