{
  "id": 7300120,
  "title": "WTC 2025-27 Points Table: Pakistan Sink To 4.63 Pct After Massive 11-point Penalty",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/wtc-2025-27-points-table-pakistan-sink-to-4-63-pct-after-massive-11",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-14T10:11:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/sports/wtc-2025-27-points-table-pakistan-sink-to-463-pct-after-massive-11-point-penalty"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Pakistan's World Test Championship points percentage has plummeted to a single-digit 4.63 percent following a double sanction for maintaining a slow over rate during their third Test defeat against England at Edgbaston. The International Cricket Council (ICC) imposed a 50% fine on match fees and deducted 11 points due to the team's inability to reach the target, taking into account time allowances. This sanction, handed down by on-field umpires, third umpire, and two additional match referees, has pushed Pakistan to the ninth position in the standings, previously in dead bottom at 14.81 percent. The team now has only five points from nine matches, having won two and lost seven games in the current WTC cycle. The slow-over rate offense has cost them 19 of their 24 points. Before this recent deduction, Pakistan had already been penalized eight points for the same offense in the Dhaka Test against Bangladesh in May. Despite these setbacks, Australia maintains the top position in the WTC standings with 96 points and an 80 percent points percentage, followed by South Africa and New Zealand.",
  "summary": "New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Pakistan have been hit with a double sanction for maintaining a slow over rate during their third Test defeat against England at Edgbaston, which has pushed them down to a single-digit percentage in the World Test Championship. A look at the #WTC27 standings following Pakistan’s latest sanction. co/8Phz2w2Nmh pic.twitter.com/4HmvFLDEji — ICC (@ICC)…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}