Pakistan Cricket Team: Babar Azam and company got punished for the second time between World Cup 2023, ICC fined for this reason

Pakistan faced New Zealand in the 35th match of the ICC ODI World Cup 2023. In this match, Pakistan won by 21 runs through the DLS method. The match was affected by rain at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Despite the victory in this match, Pakistan has suffered a big setback.

ICC fined Pakistan for slow over-rate against New Zealand. ICC itself gave this information. Let us tell you that this is the second time in this World Cup that Pakistan has been fined for slow over-rate. Earlier, against South Africa, Pakistan was charged 20 percent of the match fee for slow over rate at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Pakistan's team has been fined 10 percent of the match fee for the slow over rate in the match against New Zealand. In this match, Pakistan won by 21 runs and kept alive its hopes of reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup 2023.

Meanwhile, while giving this information, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said that Richie Richardson of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees found that the Babar Azam-led team had reduced the stipulated time by two overs, after which he ordered the players of the team to be punished. But this fine was imposed.

Let us tell you that against New Zealand, Pakistan team captain Babar Azam was not able to understand to whom to hand the ball so that wickets could be taken. During this time, time was wasted and in the end, the Pakistan team was two overs behind the time limit at the end of the first innings, due to which some players had to be kept within the 30-yard circle, and New Zealand batsmen took advantage of it. This penalty did not end there, after the match the ICC also fined him 10 percent of the match fee.

If we talk about the match, Pakistan won the match based on its batting. New Zealand had set a mountain-like target of 402 runs, chasing which Pakistan team won the match by Duckworth Lewis Method due to rain. Let us tell you that now on the points table, Pakistan is in fifth position with 8 points after winning four out of 8 matches. At the same time, New Zealand also has 8 points after the same number of matches. However, due to a better net run rate, the Kiwi team is in fourth place and Babar's team is in fifth place.