LONDON (AFP) - England captain Paul Collingwood has been fined 50 percent of his match fee for a slow over-rate during India’s nine-run win in the second one-day international here at Nevil Road.
Match referee Roshan Mahanama ruled that England had been three overs short of its target of bowling 50 overs in the permitted three-and-a-half hours when time allowances were taken into consideration.
The England team was also fined.
And with the shortfall being more than two overs, Collingwood, as captain, was automatically charged with a Level Two breach of the International Cricket Council (ICC) code of conduct, clause 2.11.
Collingwood pleaded guilty to that charge in the hearing that took place after Friday’s floodlit match where he was accompanied by Peter Moores, the England coach, and team manager Phil Neale.
The charge was laid by the two on-field match officials Billy Doctrove and Ian Gould and third umpire Nigel Llong.
Collingwood’s punishment, the minimum available for a Level Two offence, could have been much worse.
Mahanama, if he’d gone to the other extreme, had the option of imposing a full match fee and/or a one Test or two one-day international ban.
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