Ja­maica Tallawahs skip­per Chris Gayle has been fined by the Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League for his side’s slow over rate against the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers at Sabi­na Park, Kingston, on Fri­day.

TKR hit a CPL fran­chise-record 267 for two against the Tallawahs, as New Zealan­der Col­in Munro (96 not out) and Lendl Sim­mons (86) belt­ed half-cen­turies. With the ball be­ing hit to all parts of the ground, Gayle tried to slow down things on sev­er­al occasions as he chat­ted with his bowlers and ad­just­ed the field to prevent the onslaught from TKR, who eventually went on to win the match by 41 runs.

It added that this was the sec­ond such charge against, Tallawahs al­so hav­ing done the same against TKR when the two teams meet at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on Sep­tem­ber 6.

As a result of this breach, the CPL said Gayle was fined un­der Sec­tion 4.2 of the Code of Con­duct and the Tallawahs were also penalized with a 0.05 re­duc­tion in their net run rate.

This could be critical to Tallawahs, who are currently languishing at the bottom of the CPL table with just two points from five match­es and now with a net run rate of -0.982. Net run rate is currently used as the tie-break­er should teams end up on the same points heading in­to the play­offs.