Khawaja mentioned it was “actually irritating” for gamers to lose their match charges regardless of delivering entertaining matches and that he had reached out to ICC Basic Supervisor Wasim Khan to hunt an answer.
The governing physique mentioned at its annual common assembly that it was lowering the penalty to five% from 20% for each over a participant’s workforce is discovered to be behind.
Australia and India had been hit with heavy penalties for gradual over-rates within the World Take a look at Championship last, whereas the Australians had been additionally punished for his or her charge within the first two Ashes Assessments towards England.
Khawaja, talking forward of the fourth Ashes Take a look at starting at Previous Trafford on Wednesday, mentioned as an Australian Cricketers’ Affiliation board member he needed to discover a approach to converse to the ICC concerning the subject.
“We had performed three video games and so they’d been three actually good video games with outcomes, ente
rtainment, the WTC (last) was the highest-watched Take a look at match ever or one thing like that,” he added.
“Simply actually great things – and we had been getting fined 80% of our match charge. It is some huge cash.”
India’s gamers had been fined 100% of their match charges after they had been discovered to be 5 overs behind within the WTC last, whereas Australia had been docked 80% for lagging 4 overs behind.
“Simply actually irritating as a participant,” mentioned Khawaja. “You’re giving it your all on the market, offering leisure, then you might be getting stung for it. Simply felt like I wanted to talk and Wasim was actually good.”
Sourav Ganguly, chair of the ICC’s cricket committee, mentioned after the assembly final week that whereas groups would nonetheless be deducted WTC factors for gradual over-rates gamers would not lose their total match charges.
“We imagine this gives a stability between sustaining over-rates and guaranteeing we’re not deterring gamers from taking part in Take a look at cricket,” he added.
