Pakistan have been hit with a World Test Championship points penalty for slow over-rates in their defeat to South Africa in Cape Town, leaving them in danger of slipping down to last place in the table.
Pakistan lost the second Test match of their series against South Africa yesterday (January 6), slipping to a 10 wicket defeat having been made to follow-on. They have now been fined 25 per cent of their match fee and deducted five World Test Championship points after they were deemed to be five overs short of where they should have been.
The penalty was applied in accordance with Article 2.2 of the ICC's Code of Conduct which sets out the calculation for whether a team has met the required over rate or not. A team is docked one World Test Championship point for every over they were short of the rate. This is Pakistan's third points deduction in this World Test Championship cycle. They were previously docked two points after their Test against Australia in Perth in December 2023, and they were docked six points following their first Test against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi in August last year.
