NEW DELHI: Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi has been fined 20 percent of his match fee and his teammates will lose 10 percent for their slow over rate in Saturday's 11-run win against Sri Lanka, the ICC said Sunday. Match referee Chris Broad imposed the fine after Pakistan was one over short of its target at the end of the match in Colombo when time allowances were taken into consideration, the International Cricket Council said in a statement. According to the ICC Code of Conduct governing minor over-rate offenses, players are fined 10 per cent of their match fees for every over their side fail to bowl in the allotted time while the captain is fined double that amount. “The penalty was accepted by Pakistan without contest so there was no need for a hearing,” the ICC statement read. Bangladesh factories close for World Cup Bangladesh garment export firms Sunday protested against government orders to shut down factories during the cricket World Cup, saying the move would affect the country's economy. Garment factories have been instructed to close for six hours every evening until the final on April 2 so that power cuts do not affect avid cricket fans watching the games on television at home. Lanka needs Murali, Malinga If Sri Lanka is to have any chance of becoming the only Asian team to win two World Cups in the sub-continent, it need its two chief weapons, Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan, to find their form – fast. The co-host was one of the pre-tournament favorites to win the showpiece but Saturday's 11-run defeat by Pakistan exposed some glaring weaknesses in its bowling armoury. Muralitharan should have been trapping rival batsmen with his mystifying powers of flight and spin but has instead been leaking runs to rank outsiders such as Canada. Lloyd keeps faith in Windies West Indies legend Clive Lloyd remains confident the Caribbean side has a bright future despite seeing the former kings of cricket plummet alarmingly down the rankings. Under Lloyd the West Indies, helped by its fearsome pace attack, became the top team in world cricket, winning the first two World Cups, but a relentless decline has seen it tumble down the pecking order. But the former skipper insists there is light at the end of the tunnel. “We have one or two green shoots – (Darren) Bravo, (Adrian) Barath. We have (Kemar) Roach and one or two young players.
