5th ODI ,India Vs S.L @ Delhi

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more update and confusion

11.42 Stay with us for further updates. As soon as we get word, you will know.

11.38 Alan Hurst, the match referee, and the umpires walk off. Plenty of DDCA and match officials standing on the sidelines. The players are inside.

11.35 Sorry for the confusion. We heard from the ground scorer that it was called off. That has not been confirmed, however. The DDCA officials, the umpires, the curator and the match referee are inspecting the two pitches. The crowd is very restless. Some section are chanting irate slogans.

11.30 The coaches are out. The players are all huddled. Now they are leaving the field, slowly. A few officials are inspecting the second adjacent pitch, which doesn't look any better. The issue is the patches of grass interspersed with patches of baldness. If the ball pitches even fractionally on either side, the result is a low delivery of a riser.

11.20 The umpires meet to discuss the condition of the pitch. Too many deliveries have nearly knocked the batsman's' head off. I will say it again, its a poor pitch to play on. Sangakkara storms out and has words with Dhoni and the umpires. He does not look pleased. On replays, I see that the second that last ball spat up off a length Sangakkara and Jayawardene, sitting on the sidelines, waved at the batsmen. Now the match referee walks out. This is big. The pitch has been bad since the start, and it took this ball to draw a reaction. What about when Dilshan was hit? Dhoni is having a lot to say as well. Plenty of chat.

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The match is called off ..

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India win the series 3-1 :) :) :)

Hum woh ana parast hain
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It is so sad that such a pitch has been prepared. Some action needs to be taken and fast.

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From cricinfo

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Interesting bit of information our bulletin writer has just dug up. Per the ICC's Code of Conduct, after the first occasion of a venue producing a pitch unfit for play the immediate punishment is, and I quote: "A suspension of the venue's international status for a period of between 12 and 24 months together with a directive for appropriate remedial action and the need for prior ICC re-accreditation as an international venue." Now that leaves the Kotla's holding any matches in the 2011 World Cup in the balance.
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With all the cricketing money, we still cant prepare a decent pitch that lasts 100 overs, shame on you BCCI and the Delhi Cricket Association.

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:D

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^ If you just want to increase your # of posts, please do visit cafe.

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Whats with these morons ? They either prepare flat wickets on these kinds....

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Sri Lanka ‘chickened out’, says DDCA vice-president

   Cricinfo staff

December 28, 2009

The Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) vice-president and former India Test player Chetan Chauhan has said Sri Lanka “chickened out” out of the final ODI against India after finding themselves in trouble at 83 for 5 in the 24th over. He also questioned the officials’ decision to call off the game and said the pitch was neither unplayable or dangerous.

Chauhan’s comments, to the Indian news channel Times Now, are likely to add to the controversy surrounding the match, and appear ill-timed given that the matter is currently with the ICC - which could, as punishment, keep the Kotla ground out of the 2011 World Cup.

He claimed while the match at the Feroz Shah Kotla was held up, with the officials pondering whether it would be wise to carry on, the ICC match referee Alan Hurst told him that the visitors were reluctant to carry on.

“The match referee told me unofficially that one side did not want to carry on and he could not force them,” Chauhan said. “It could not be India since [MS] Dhoni was willing to continue. Sri Lanka were at 83 for 5 and that’s why they backed out… it was the Sri Lankans who chickened out.”

Play was called off after 23.3 overs after the match officials decided the pitch was of “extremely variable bounce and too dangerous for further play”. Chauhan though, questioned why the match continued till the 24th over and wasn’t called off much earlier. “Everybody involved with the game is to be blamed for the fiasco, including the match referee,” he said. "I don’t think the match would have been called off had it been in Australia or South Africa. Had the pitch been dangerous for play, the match would have been called off inside five overs and it could not have gone on to the 24th.

“I agree this was not ideal for international matches but this was neither unplayable or dangerous. I’ve played on similar tracks, even on worse. I never realised a match could be called off so easily.”

Hurst, in his statement on Sunday, said the decision to abandon the match had been taken in consultation with both captains and the on-field umpires Marais Erasmus and Shavir Tarapore, after they had given it enough time to see if the pitch would settle down. “It was clear that the pitch had extremely variable bounce and was too dangerous for further play,” he said. “I’d like to commend the on-field umpires and captains for continuing as long as they did in the hope that the pitch may settle down. Unfortunately, this did not happen.”

Chauhan also contended that the adjacent strip had been offered to ensure a new match. “We offered another wicket and said ‘give us one hour and you would have it ready’,” he said. "But he [Hurst] decided to call it off.
“The match should have continued because some 45,000 people were in the ground and another 2-3 crore were glued to the television. An honest effort should have been made to save the match.”

But Hurst said, “Before abandoning the match, consideration was given to shifting the match to a secondary pitch. However, it was deemed impractical as the secondary pitch was not adequately prepared.”

Instead of taking the responsibility he’s attacking SL. Really pathetic. Let’s see if they ban this venue for the upcoming world cup.

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Here’s what the curator has to say about the pitch -

‘I should have insisted on trials’ - Daljit Singh | Cricket News | India v Sri Lanka 2009/10 | Cricinfo.com](http://www.cricinfo.com/indvsl2009/content/current/story/441696.html)

If this is true, it really calls into question SL’s sportsman spirit :hoonh:

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Was the curator from BJP? :Dkya pitch banai mashallah

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The umpires made the last call, not batsmen. They were convinced pitch was not suitable for batsmen. Maybe umpires too chickened out.

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True, but the batsmen were the ones who whined and complained :)

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I saw it and believe me even Dhoni had a really tough time behind the stumps to collect the ball as some shot off the Pitch (Rising beyond 7 foot or more) like WACA in the 80s on Day one with a New-Ball and other kept low (rising only 5-7 inches) like Karachi (or was it Multan/Lahore) When MoYo broke Vivs World-Record

So instead of taking the blame they r now finger pointing at SL-Batters ..... Matter of Fact is that Sanga waved at the umpires way earlier to stop the Game and have a look at the Pitch .... it just needed to happen quite often within a few deliveries for the Umpires to stop the game

Well let's c what the Future beholds for that venue

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What does BJP have to do with it?He can be from CPM/Congress/INL/Muslim League also :D

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so no good pitches in India, they are either flat tracks or unplayable tracks. With all the money at their disposal it is probably a deliberate ploy by BCCI to give flat track bullies good advantage.

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:konfused: If Indians are flat track bullies, why would they make a track with unpredictable bounce ?? Wouldn’t they have made another flat track at Kotla ??

1st ODI: Zimbabwe v New Zealand at Harare, Aug 2, 2015
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It's easier for groundsmen to blame others for their incompetence. This ground should be banned like other grounds who had the same problem.

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That was in reference to the BJP's open threat to dig up pitch at one of the test grounds on Pakistan's tour of India in 2005/6 :)