India’s protest over match referee Cammie Smiths interpretation of the field- restricted overs rule was rejected by the technical committee of the ECB, the World Cup organisers on Monday.

The committee said the number of field-restricted overs should be reduced from 15 to 13 as a result of India incurring a four over penalty in their own innings by their slow over rate.

The decision of Cammie Smith was thus upheld. There was a certain ambiguity in the playing conditions but it was decided to send a circular to the officials and competing teams in regard to the regulation.

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