The International Cricket Council (ICC) has penalized England by docking two World Test Championship points for maintaining slow over rate in their recently-concluded Test match against India at Lord's.

This offence came under Article 16.11.2 of the ICC World Test Championship playing conditions, by which a side is penalised one point for each over short, and after time allowances were taken into consideration.

After the deduction, England's tally in the WTC standings dropped from 24 to 22 out of 36 points and their point percentage also went down from 66.67% to 61.11%.

As a result, the Three Lions have slipped from second to third position in the table, with Sri Lanka now overtaking them to claim the second spot.

Furthermore, Ben Stokes and his men were also fined 10 per cent of their match fee.

This was as per Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minimum over-rate offences, players are fined five per cent of their match fee for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time.

England captain Ben Stokes pled guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction imposed by Richie Richardson of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees. Due to this, there was no need of a formal hearing.

The charges were levelled by on-field umpires Paul Reiffel and Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid, third umpire Ahsan Raza and fourth umpire Graham Lloyd.

Coming to the Lord’s Test, England registered a thrilling 22-run victory as India failed to chase down 193 in the fourth innings.

The visitors were bowled out for 170, but not before putting up a valiant fight led by Ravindra Jadeja, who was left stranded on 61 not out.

With the last recognised batter in KL Rahul dismissed at 81/6, Jadeja stood firmly with the tail, dragging India within touching distance of victory. Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj displayed admirable grit, but English bowlers eventually prevailed in closing out the game.