The Indian cricket team recently had to face a 0-3 defeat in the home test series against New Zealand. After 24 years, the Indian team was swept in the test series at home. Before this, they had to face a 0-2 defeat against South Africa in 2000.
Doubts arose in the field after the defeat, now ICC gave qualification
After the crushing loss to New Zealand, questions also arose on the field. Some veterans, including Harbhajan, had blamed Team India’s defeat on the field. We tell you that the first match of the Test series played in Bengaluru was played only on the fifth day, also due to rain. While New Zealand had won the Pune and Wankhede test matches in three days.
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Now, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has released the rating of the pitches used in the Test series against Bangladesh and New Zealand. ICC has deemed the pitch at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium used against Bangladesh “very good”. While the outfield at Kanpur’s Green Park stadium received an unsatisfactory rating from ICC match referee Jeff Crowe. However, Crowe rated the Kanpur course satisfactorily.
We told them that due to the poor drainage system of the Green Park Stadium, a full day could be played against Bangladesh. Although the Indian team managed to win that match. While all three Test venues used against New Zealand – Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy Stadium, Pune’s Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium and Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium – received “satisfactory” ratings from the match umpires of the ICC.
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The high-scoring pitches in Gwalior, Delhi and Hyderabad, used for the T20 international matches against Bangladesh, received very good marks as they suited the requirements of the T20 format. However, the Indian team management, the BCCI and local curators will not be too happy to know that former Australian opener David Boon did not give any of the Test deliveries used against New Zealand a rating better than ‘satisfactory’.
There was too much humidity on the Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch, due to which India lost 46 runs against New Zealand. While the Pune and Mumbai wickets were completely spin-friendly, they did not strictly follow the criteria set for good Test wickets. But due to the good individual batting performance of the players of both teams, both wickets got a ‘satisfactory’ rating.
