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Australia's opening batter Usman Khawaja has criticised ICC's decision to hand Australia a penalty of 10 World Test Championship (WTC) points for maintaining a slow over-rate during the fourth Ashes Test as the batter registered his anger on social media.

Khawaja pointed out that Australia didn't even get a chance to bowl in the second innings due to rain over the last two days of the Manchester Test. The visitors bowled 107.4 overs in the first innings and were found 10 overs short.

"Don't even get the chance to bowl in the second innings at Manchester due to 2 days of rain and @ICC still issue fines and take 10 WTC points of us for slow over rates! That makes a lot of sense," Khawaja wrote on Twitter.

 

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Both England and Australia after ending the series at 2-2 were hit by a major setback as ICC in an official release announced that it has docked WTC points from both sides for maintaining a slow over-rate.

"Under the revised regulations, they were fined five percent of their match fee and one WTC point for every over-short," the ICC said in the release.

It clarified that the 10 points were docked from Pat Cummins' side for maintaining a slow over-rate during the fourth Test at Manchester that ended in a draw with rain washing out the final two days of the match.

England who were mentioned to have fallen behind in the over rate in almost all the matches were handed a 19-point deduction.

Khawaja, who finished as the leading run scorer in the enormous series was left unhappy with the decision made by the governing body.

Aussie bowlers didn't get a chance to bowl for the second time due to the rain interruptions on Day four of the Manchester Test.

 

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England, who had taken a first-innings lead of 275 runs and then reduced Australia to 214/5 in the second innings, were sniffing a victory but rain didn't allow a single delivery to be bowled in the final day, forcing the match into a draw.