India won the first test match played at Centurion, but even after this victory, it has suffered a major setback in the ICC World Test Championship points table.
The Indian cricket team defeated South Africa in the first test match under the captaincy of Virat Kohli.
In the 3-match test series played against South Africa at home, the Indian team performed amazingly, winning the first test match played at Centurion by 113 runs.
India team fined by ICC
The captain of India, Virat Kohli, accepted the fine.
Furthermore, in accordance with Article 16.11 of the ICC World Trials Championship, a team receives a penalty of one point for each over for not completing the over within the stipulated time.
The ICC Elite Panel match referee Andrew Pycroft imposed this penalty on India for throwing one over less in the allotted time.
According to article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for players and support team members.
If a team does not achieve a full finish on time, players are fined 20 percent of the match fee for each.
A career of the Indian team is stopped on the ICC point table
After this victory, the Indian team added 54 points in 7 games. But now one of these points has been deducted,
India dropped 1 over scheduled time in this first test match against South Africa. Due to which he was fined a slow excessive rate.
When all players' match fees were reduced by 20 percent, in accordance with the code of conduct, a team point was also deducted.
According to the ICC points table, the Indian team now has marks of 63,098 percent.
Because of this, they are now in fourth place on the points table.
While Australia ranks first and Sri Lanka second, with 100-100 percentage points.
So, Pakistan ranks third, which remains at 75 percentage points.