England fined eight WTC points for over-rate offense in Brisbane, not five: ICC | Cricket News – Times of India

Dubai: England fined eight world test championship Penalty points and not five, as announced earlier, for maintaining a slow over-rate in the first Test against Australia in Brisbane. ICC clarified on Friday.
international cricket council Last week in Brisbane England were announced a 100 per cent match fee and a fine of five WTC points for an over-rate offence.
England were eight overs short (not 5 overs short as previously announced) but were fined only 100 per cent of their match fees because of the boundary.

“However, the deduction of points for penalty overs is not limited and shows that a team represents the actual number of penalty overs less than the minimum requirement in accordance with clause 16.1. One point penalty for the overs they were short,” the ICC said in a statement.
“In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which deals with minimum over-rate offences, players are fined 20 percent of their match fee for each over they bowl in the allotted time. Fails to do so, subject to a fine of up to a maximum of 100% of the match fee.”
England trail 0-1 in five matches Ashes Struggling in the series and the ongoing second Test in Adelaide.