ICC new over rate penalties + ICC ranking

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The opening match of the Sharjah Cup between Pakistan and Zimbabwe on 3rd April 2003 will be the first played under the ICC Code of Conduct incorporating new penalties for slow over rates.

Teams will still have three-and-a-half hours plus allowances given by the referee to bowl 50 overs and each member of the bowling team will be fined 5% of his match fee per lost over. However, under the amended playing conditions, penalties will be doubled for the captain of the bowling side.

If the shortfall in an ODI is more than two overs, the captain will also be charged with a Level Two breach of the ICC Code of Conduct for deliberate time wasting. This will result in a disciplinary hearing with possible penalties of a fine of between 50% and 100% of his match fee and/or a two ODI ban.

The penalty of reducing the overs for a team batting second that failed to complete its overs in the allotted time has been removed.

The principles of the new approach will also apply in Test Match cricket with the increased penalties coming into effect after five rather than two overs.

The amendment reflects a decision taken at the ICC Cricket Committee – Management (CC-M) meeting in Cape Town from 7th – 8th February 2003.

The CC-M meeting also approved the introduction of a process for a match referee to suspend play due to safety and security concerns and this too will come into effect from the opening match of the Sharjah tournament.

The new provisions can be viewed in full on the ICC website www.icc.cricket.org. The over-rate penalties are in section J of the ICC Code of Conduct (p20) and s12.4 of the ICC ODI Playing Conditions. The safety and security suspension provisions can be found in s3.6 of the ICC Test Match and s3.6 of the ICC ODI Playing Conditions.

Sri Lanka chasing third place in ICC ODI table

On the pitch, Sri Lanka can move into third place in the ICC ODI Championship table if it wins the Sharjah Cup from 3rd – 10th April.

Sri Lanka goes into the four-team tournament with a rating of 108, just two behind third-placed Pakistan.

Although Sri Lanka reached the semi final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003, defeats to India and Kenya – both lower-ranked teams – plus two defeats to leaders Australia caused their ranking to fall during the tournament by two points.

Pakistan overtook Sri Lanka in the rankings in November 2002 and narrowly held onto third spot in spite of a poor showing at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003. Under the new captaincy of Rashid Latif, the team will be looking to consolidate its third spot.

Kenya was the biggest beneficiary from the ICC Cricket World Cup, increasing its rating by 10. Victories over Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe helped Steve Tikolo’s team close the gap to ninth placed Zimbabwe from 46 to 33 points.

Kenya’s current rating of 30 is the highest it has been since the ICC ODI rankings were introduced in October 2002.

Zimbabwe’s ICC CWC defeat to Kenya was the main reason their rating fell by three from 66 to 63 during the tournament. They will have a chance to avenge that defeat on 5th April.

The umpiring duties in Sharjah will be shared between Arani Jayaprakash, Billy Doctrove and Kevin Barbour from the Emirates International Panel of Umpires. The match referee will be Justice Ahmed Ebrahim from the Emirates International Panel of Referees.

ICC ODI Championship Table (correct at the end of the ICC CWC 2003)



Ranking  Team          Pld    Rating (Rating on 8th Feb 2003)
1        Australia      46     136           (132)
2        South Africa   53     123           (126)
3        **Pakistan       45     110           (114)**
4        Sri Lanka      57     108           (110)
5        India          54     103            (99)
6        West Indies    35      99            (99)
7        New Zealand    45      98            (97)
8        England        34      98            (98)
9        Zimbabwe       40      63            (66)
10       Kenya          22      30            (20)
11       Bangladesh     19       6            (10)

How the ICC ODI rankings work:

The formula used by the ICC to determine ranking positions takes into account the following factors:

  • results from all ODI matches played over the previous two to three years
  • strength of opposition, with greater reward for beating higher ranked opponents
  • greater importance is placed on more recent results, with older matches dropped every 12 months
  • all matches have equal status, with no account taken of venue or margin of victory
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I thought the old method was very effective, reducing overs in the 2nd inning was a good idea.

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Previously when our bowlers wanted to play politics with their captain, they’d bowl badly and lose matches. Now in addition to that, they will also bankrupt the captain. :hehe: Lateef bhai jaan, get a good bankruptcy attorney right now.

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:hehe:

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:hehe::hehe:

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Re: ICC new over rate penalties + ICC ranking

  • Australia won all their matches in the World Cup (and have been unbeaten since God knows when) and lifted the trophy, they added all of four points.
  • Pakistan lost all but two matches in the World Cup and crashed out of it in first round, they lost all of four points.

The wonders of rating system :k:

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I think the rating system is very good.

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Yes, Even I think it's very good and to be at the top a needs to be consistent over a period of time.

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Thats the point. A temparory success of any team in a torunament shoulnot change the ranking dramatically.It should representative of teams performance over a period of time.

Only complain I have is that they treat a match in worldcup same as any other match.

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:rotfl: So u think ICC should rank the WC matches as like +20 points or something so that the difference of 52:30 betwen PAK vs IND can be covered easily and u don’t have to keep whining about WC 4:0 :rotfl:

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Another Ignorant Comment - ICC doesn't count all the matches played in the history, it only counts the matches played in last 2-3 years. So your 52-30 or 4-0 logic doesn't hold any ground.

I dont know how ICC ranks WC matches, but they are definately more important than some stup!d tournament played somwhere in Kalahari.

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*Originally posted by Asif_k: *
I dont know how ICC ranks WC matches, but they are definately more important than some stup!d tournament played somwhere in Kalahari.
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I don't know the ICC formula... but it seems to me that Pakistan defeating Australia in a first round match in Kalahari will get them more points, than Pakistan winning against Bangladesh in a must-win match to secure a birth in World Cup semi-final. Don't quote me on that. :)

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Haha, They already take care of that Faisal bhai :-

** * strength of opposition, with greater reward for beating higher ranked opponents **

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Good thing Shoaib Akhtar is dropped then.

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Any ranking system shows the current form of a team.Which means that a match won in 2003 should be given more points than a match won in 2001.Which means that a team should get some point for a matche won today and over a period of time weightage of this point should be decreased and then aftre a considerble period they shouldnot get any credit.
This is how PWC rating also works.
So yes 52-30 will have some effect if some of these matches were played in last 2-3 years.But just because some team won some matches in 10 years back doesnt make them great time at this time.
West Indies has a great tea in 70s doesnt mean that they should be ranked first now.
but you are such a dumb that you wont understand.

Also Both these rating doesnt give extra credit for important tournament like Worldcup or ICC.I think they should definitly give extra credtis for those matches.