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The ICC has rated Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium pitch, used for India’s Take a look at match towards Bangladesh, as “superb” with different 4 residence centres used throughout the season being deemed “passable”. Actually, all of the three Take a look at venues used towards New Zealand — Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy, Maharashtra Cricket Affiliation Stadium in Pune’s Gahunje and Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai — nearly managed “passable” rankings from the ICC match referee. Nevertheless, Kanpur’s Inexperienced Park stadium’s outfield has been rated “unsatisfactory” by the ICC match referee Jeff Crowe.
The federal government-owned stadium’s poor drainage system led to solely two full days of play towards Bangladesh and regardless of the pitch being rated “passable”, the outfield did not escape the wrath of the previous Kiwi worldwide.
The high-scoring tracks at Gwalior, Delhi and Hyderabad used for Bangladesh T20Is had been rated “superb”, as they conformed to the necessities of the shortest format.
Nevertheless, the Indian crew administration, the BCCI and native curators would not be too amused to know that former Australia opener David Boon could not price any of the Take a look at match tracks used towards New Zealand past “passable”.
The Chinnaswamy pitch had extreme moisture that led to India being all out for 46 towards New Zealand whereas each Pune and Mumbai tracks had been “rank turners”, which did not strictly comply with the norms prescribed for a ‘Good Take a look at’ match wicket.
However the two tracks escaped with passable rankings due to some good particular person batting performances from gamers of either side.
India gained the Take a look at and T20I sequence towards Bangladesh. Nevertheless, India misplaced the three-match Take a look at sequence towards New Zealand. The Take a look at sequence loss towards New Zealand has harm India actual unhealthy in its ambition to qualify for the World Take a look at Championship ultimate. India now must win the Border Gavaskar Trophy towards Australia 4-0 to be able to qualify for the title conflict by itself.
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