IND vs ENG: After heavy penalty, Ben Stokes blasts ICC – ‘You may’t have the identical guidelines in …’ | Cricket Information – Instances of India

England captain Ben Stokes has urged the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) to revisit how over-rates are monitored and penalised, particularly throughout completely different taking part in circumstances and continents. Following England’s 22-run win over India within the third Take a look at at Lord’s, the hosts have been docked two World Take a look at Championship (WTC) factors and fined 10% of their match charge for sustaining a sluggish over-rate. Stokes, nevertheless, believes the present guidelines don’t account for floor realities. “Over price is not one thing that I fear about, however that is not saying that I purposely sluggish issues down,” Stokes stated in a press convention forward of the fourth Take a look at at Outdated Trafford. “I do perceive the frustration round it, however I actually suppose there must be an actual exhausting take a look at the way it’s structured. “You may’t have the identical guidelines in Asia, the place spin is bowling 70 per cent of the overs, to have the identical legal guidelines in New Zealand, Australia, England, the place it is going to be 70-80 per cent seam bowling. As a result of a spinner’s over takes much less time than a seamer’s over. So widespread sense would suppose that it is best to take a look at possibly altering how the over charges are timed in several continents.”

Stokes additionally defended England’s over-rate throughout the Lord’s Take a look at, citing fatigue and the demanding nature of a five-day match on the seamers. “I can perceive it from an exterior perspective across the overs, I actually do. But it surely’s a really robust factor to do once I really feel there’s extra to it than simply getting rounds, getting advised I am going to simply quicken up, get three overs,” he stated. “You’ve got received quick bowlers bending their backs constantly. So all through the course of a sport, the time of overs goes to return down since you’ve simply received drained our bodies. “We performed for 5 days, that was our fifteenth day of cricket. We clearly had an damage to Shoaib Bashir, a spinner. So we could not flip to our spinner as a lot as we’d have appreciated to on day 5. So we needed to throw a seam at them for just about the entire day. In order that’s clearly going to sluggish issues down. And there are durations within the sport the place you do try to simply sluggish all the pieces down, extra tactically if something like that.”

Furthermore, following the hosts being handed the penalty, England legend and former captain Michael Vaughan not solely questioned ICC, but in addition requested why just one workforce confronted the implications.“Let’s be sincere each groups over charges at Lords have been very very poor .. How just one workforce has been reprimanded is past me,” Vaughan wrote on X after England have been deducted factors.