Australia and India have been slapped with heavy fines for maintaining slow over rates during the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) 2023 Final at The Oval.

The WTC final came to an end on Sunday (June 11), with Australia winning the title by defeating India with a huge margin of 209 runs.

While India lost all of their match fees due to slow over rate, Australia docked 80 percent of their match fees.

“India were ruled to be five overs short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration, while Australia were found to be four overs short. In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, players are fined 20 per cent of their match fee for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time,” the official release stated.

India opener Shubman Gill also faced further sanction for expressing dissent over the third umpire’s decision to give him out in the second innings.

Gill has been reprimanded for breaching article 2.7, which relates to public criticism or inappropriate comment in relation to an incident occurring in an international match.

“The young opener was fined a further 15% of his match fee, meaning he will have pay back as part of his punishment given he has effectively incurred 115% of match fees in fines,” the statement read.

On Day 4, Gill edged a delivery from Scott Boland and Cameron Green, who was stationed at gully, leaped to his left to hold onto an inconclusive catch.

The on-field umpires went upstairs to check for a clean catch. After watching the reply from multiple angles, TV umpire Richard Kettleborough came to a conclusion that Green’s fingers were underneath the ball and declared Gill out.

Kettleborough’s decision created quite a stir on social media, with many experts opining that Gill was hard done by the third umpire.

Later in the day, Shubman Gill also took to Twitter and made a post that appeared to question the decision.