England players have been fined 20 percent of their match fees as a result of maintaining a slow over-rate against India in the penultimate T20I for the five-match series at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. ICC elite panel match referee Javagal Srinath imposed the sanction after Eoin Morgan’s side was ruled to be one over short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration at the Narendra Modi Stadium.

In a press release regarding the same in Friday, ICC wrote: “In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minimum over-rate offenses, players are scheduled to receive a fine of 20 percent of their match fees for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time.”

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India won the match by eight runs on Thursday night to level the five-match series at 2-2, paving the way for a winners-take-it-all final game at the same venue on Saturday.

The English skipper, Eoin Morgan pleaded guilty to the offense and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no need for a formal hearing. On-field umpires KN Ananthapadmanabhan, Nitin Menon, and third umpire Virendra Sharma leveled the charges.

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India has managed to register a series leveling win over England in the fourth T20I of the five-match series by runs on Thursday at the Narendra Modi Stadium. The series is now leveled at 2-2 with a game to go. For India, Shardul Thakur and Suryakumar Yadav played a crucial role in their respective fields for the team as the latter played a brilliant knock of 31-ball 57 while Thakur bowled a brilliant spell of 3/42.