England has been fined 40% of their match fees and docked 2 Points from WTC Table

England defeated New Zealand by 5 wickets in the second Test match at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on June 14. Jonny Bairstow's fine knock-off 136 off just 92 balls helped the hosts to grab a lead of 2-0. Even though the home team chased down the target of 299 without breaking a sweat, they have lost out on two precious points from their ICC World Test Championship 2021-23 tally.

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The reason for this is that England was ruled to be two overs short of the target. Meanwhile, the sanction was imposed by cricketer-turned-match referee Richie Richardson who also is a part of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees. Thus, the Ben Stokes-led side, whose points tally rose to 42 after this famous win, now has only 40 points.

More importantly, it affected their points percentage which dropped down from 25 to 23.80. Besides all this, the players were also fined  40% of their match fee for the slow over-rate offense.

"England players were also fined 40% of their match fee for the slow over-rate": ICC's official statement

"In addition, as per Article 16.11.2 of the ICC World Test Championship playing conditions, a side is penalised one point for each over short. As a result, England have been penalised two World Test Championship points from their total tally."

ICC's official statement read

"England players were also fined 40% of their match fee for the slow over-rate. In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel. Players are fined 20 percent of their match fee for every over their team fails to bowl in the allotted time." the statement added.

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Meanwhile, with this victory, England has now taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match test series. Thus, the Three Lions now have registered their first-ever Test series win after January 2021. In that year, they had blanked Sri Lanka 2-0 in their own backyard. They would now be hoping to whitewash the Kiwis by winning the third and final Test match at Headingley starting on June 23.