The BCCI is contemplating difficult ICC match referee Chris Broad’s choice of declaring the Indore pitch as ‘poor’. After the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which India misplaced in two days and a session, the ICC penalized the venue with three demerit factors, primarily based on Broad’s report.
A BCCI official stated, “We will take stock of the situation and take a call.” In an ICC press assertion, match referee Broad stated, ‘The pitch, which was very dry, didn’t present a steadiness between bat and ball, favoring the spinners from the outset. The fifth ball of the match broke by way of the floor of the pitch and continued to interrupt the floor often, inflicting little or no seam motion and extreme and uneven bounce all through the match.
Last yr, the Pakistan Cricket Board challenged the match referee’s pitch score and dominated in his favour. As a end result, the demerit level awarded to the Rawalpindi pitch was cancelled. The pitch was given a ‘beneath common’ score after the primary Test of the collection in early December. That recreation had a memorable finish when England secured one in every of their greatest Test victories in only minutes. The guests scored round seven runs per over of their two innings and declared a end result doable on that flat floor, difficult Pakistan to 342 within the fourth innings in additional than a day .
As per ICC guidelines, the BCCI has 14 days to attraction in opposition to the sanction. If the avenue accumulates 5 demerit factors over a rolling interval of 5 years, it is going to be suspended from internet hosting worldwide matches for 12 months. The pitches at Nagpur and Delhi that hosted the primary two Tests of the collection had been rated ‘Average’ by the match referee.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
