{"id":587304,"date":"2026-05-16T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587304\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:52:07","slug":"pakistan-lose-eight-wtc-points-for-slow-over-rate-in-first-test-against-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587304\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan lose eight WTC points for slow over rate in first Test against Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The loss of points moved them to No. 8 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/icc-world-test-championship-2025-2027-1472510\/points-table-standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTC table<\/a>. They have four points from three Tests, an 11.11% points. The win took Bangladesh to sixth place with 44.44% points. They are now above England, who have 31.67% points.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WTC points table\" class=\"ds-rounded-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/wassets.hscicdn.com\/static\/images\/lazyimage-noaspect.svg\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The sanction on Pakistan was imposed by match referee Jeff Crowe under Article 2.22 of the ICC&#8217;s code of conduct for players and player support personnel, which deals with minimum-over-rate offences. Players are fined 5% of their match fee for every over their side fails to bowl within the allotted time. Teams also lose one WTC point for each over they fail to bowl in time.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan became the second team to be docked points for maintaining a slow over rate in the ongoing WTC cycle after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/eng-vs-ind-england-docked-wtc-points-fined-for-slow-over-rate-in-3rd-test-at-lord-s-1495555\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England lost two points<\/a> after the Lord&#8217;s Test against India in July last year.<\/p>\n<p>Australia are leading the WTC table, their seven wins in eight Tests so far giving them 87.50% points. They are followed by New Zealand (77.78%), defending champions South Africa (75.00%), Sri Lanka (66.67%), and India (48.15%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The loss of points moved them to No. 8 on the WTC table. They have four points from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}