DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The West In­dies Women’s woes in their on­go­ing T20I se­ries against Aus­tralia Women were com­pound­ed af­ter they were fined 10 per cent of their match fee for main­tain­ing a slow over rate in Thurs­day’s open­ing match.

The home side was ad­judged by match ref­er­ee Re­on King to have been two overs short of the tar­get af­ter time al­lowances were tak­en in­to con­sid­er­a­tion, af­ter on-field um­pires Lau­ren Agen­bag and Jacque­line Williams, third um­pire Can­dace La Bor­de and fourth um­pire Maria Ab­bott lev­elled the charge.

As per Ar­ti­cle 2.22 of the ICC Code of Con­duct for Play­ers and Play­er Sup­port Per­son­nel, which states that for 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.

West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews pled guilty to the of­fence and ac­cept­ed the pro­posed sanc­tion, which rules out the need for a for­mal hear­ing.

The West In­dies trail the three-match se­ries 2-0, with the fi­nal T20I sched­uled to be played on Mon­day.

CMC