Australia fined for slow over-rate

The Australia team has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its six-wicket loss to Sri Lanka during the Group C match in the ICC World Twenty20 at Trent Bridge on Monday.
Chris Broad of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees imposed the fines after Ricky Ponting's side was ruled to be one over short of its target at the end of the Sri Lanka innings when time allowances were taken into consideration.
In accordance with the ICC Code of Conduct regulations governing over-rate penalties, players are fined five per cent of their match fees for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time, with the captain fined double that amount.
As such, Ponting was fined 10 per cent of his match fee while his players received five-per-cent fines.
The offence is contrary to Section J of the ICC Code of Conduct which relates to slow over-rates. For such offences, the decision of the ICC match referee is final and binding.
The full ICC Code of Conduct can be found at:
http://in.yimg.com/icccricket/pdfs/code-of-conduct-for-players-and-officials.pdf. Section J, which deals with minimum over-rates, can be found on page 20 of this pdf document.
The ICC World Twenty20 2009 involves 12 of the top men's teams and the top eight women's line-ups playing at four venues - Lord's, The Oval, Trent Bridge and Taunton - in the pinnacle of international cricketing action.
The defending men's champion is India, which beat Pakistan in the final of the inaugural event, in South Africa in 2007. This is the first staging of the women's tournament.