Australia women fined for slow over-rate in 2nd ODI against India

New Delhi: The Australian women's cricket team was on Friday fined 10 per cent of its match fee for maintaining a slow over-rate against India in the second one-day international in Mullanpur, Chandigarh. The Aussie women suffered a massive 102-run defeat in the second ODI match which was their heaviest in terms of runs on September 17.

 GS Lakshmi of the ICC International Panel of Match Referees imposed the sanction as Australia were ruled to be two overs short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration. ICC issued a statement in the same regard announcing a fine of five per cent for all the players.

'In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minimum over-rate offences, players are fined five per cent of their match fee for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time,' the ICC said in a statement.

'Australia captain Alyssa Healy pled guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no need for a formal hearing,' it added.

The charge on the Australian women's team was levelled by on-field umpires Vrinda Rathi and Janani Narayanan, third umpire Lauren Agenbag and fourth umpire Gayathri Venugopalan. In the first match of the three-game series, visitors Australia bagged a big victory by 8 wickets leading the series 1-0. Though India women came up with a solid batting performance scoring 281 runs in the stipulated 50 overs, Australia comfortably chased the target in just 44.1 overs.

In the second match, India again batted first putting up a total of 292 on the board and their bowlers did the rest by bowling out Australia for just 190 runs in 40.5 overs. The series-decider will take place in Delhi on September 20, Saturday.

(With inputs from PTI)