NEW DELHI: The International Cricket Council ,ICC) has modified the pitch ranking of Indore’s Holkar Stadium to ‘under reasonable’ from ‘deficient’ following a BCCI enchantment. The stadium hosted the 3rd Test between India and Australia.
The ICC additionally gave the Narendra Modi Stadium The pitch in Ahmedabad, the venue for the fourth Test, has an ‘reasonable’ ranking for the gradual batting deck the place each groups had one finished innings each and every.
The fit had led to a tame draw, with India profitable the sequence 2–1.
At Indore, Australia had defeated India by way of 9 wickets inside of 3 days of the Border-Gavaskar Test to safe a World Test Championship ultimate berth.
The ICC enchantment panel reviewed the sooner resolution of the fit referee Chris Broad and located that there was once no longer sufficient over the top variable soar to warrant the ‘deficient’ ranking.
The pitch, which had to begin with gained 3 demerit issues, will now get just one demerit level.
“The footage from the Test was reviewed by an ICC appeal panel consisting of Wasim Khan, ICC General Manager – Cricket, and Roger Harper, ICC Men’s Cricket Committee Member. Both were of the opinion that, while the guidelines had been followed by the Match Referee in accordance with Appendix A of the Pitch Monitoring Process, there was not enough excessive variable bounce to warrant the ‘poor’ rating,” mentioned an ICC observation on Monday.
“The panel, therefore, concluded that the pitch should be rated ‘below average’, meaning the Holkar Stadium would receive only one demerit point instead of the original three.”
The Holkar Stadium pitch introduced a large number of assist to the spinners, with 14 wickets falling at the first day and, out of the 31 wickets to fall within the Test, 26 had been picked up by way of spinners.
At Ahmedabad, Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green scored centuries for Australia within the Test, whilst for India, Virat Kohli and younger Shubman Gill hit heaps.
The ICC fit referee on the other hand gave ‘excellent’ ranking to the the Wankhede Stadium and Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam pitches, the place the primary two ODIs between India and Australia had been performed.
The ICC additionally gave the Narendra Modi Stadium The pitch in Ahmedabad, the venue for the fourth Test, has an ‘reasonable’ ranking for the gradual batting deck the place each groups had one finished innings each and every.
The fit had led to a tame draw, with India profitable the sequence 2–1.
At Indore, Australia had defeated India by way of 9 wickets inside of 3 days of the Border-Gavaskar Test to safe a World Test Championship ultimate berth.
The ICC enchantment panel reviewed the sooner resolution of the fit referee Chris Broad and located that there was once no longer sufficient over the top variable soar to warrant the ‘deficient’ ranking.
The pitch, which had to begin with gained 3 demerit issues, will now get just one demerit level.
“The footage from the Test was reviewed by an ICC appeal panel consisting of Wasim Khan, ICC General Manager – Cricket, and Roger Harper, ICC Men’s Cricket Committee Member. Both were of the opinion that, while the guidelines had been followed by the Match Referee in accordance with Appendix A of the Pitch Monitoring Process, there was not enough excessive variable bounce to warrant the ‘poor’ rating,” mentioned an ICC observation on Monday.
“The panel, therefore, concluded that the pitch should be rated ‘below average’, meaning the Holkar Stadium would receive only one demerit point instead of the original three.”
The Holkar Stadium pitch introduced a large number of assist to the spinners, with 14 wickets falling at the first day and, out of the 31 wickets to fall within the Test, 26 had been picked up by way of spinners.
At Ahmedabad, Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green scored centuries for Australia within the Test, whilst for India, Virat Kohli and younger Shubman Gill hit heaps.
The ICC fit referee on the other hand gave ‘excellent’ ranking to the the Wankhede Stadium and Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam pitches, the place the primary two ODIs between India and Australia had been performed.
(With inputs from PTI)