The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has appealed to the International Cricket Council (ICC) against the ranking given to the Holkar Stadium, Indore. In the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, India suffered a loss by 9 wickets. Following the match, ICC had given a “poor” ranking to the pitch.
“The BCCI sources said that an appeal was always on the cards as the rating appears to have been given in haste. The match referee’s adjudication of the pitch came just hours after the Test ended,” Cricbuzz reported.Â
The assessment can additional work within the favour of the Indore pitch because the BCCI will attempt to revise the ranking from “poor” to “below average” if doable. A two-member committee of the ICC is ready to look into the matter.Â
The Indore pitch which acquired criticism from a number of gamers and consultants was been given ranking a ranking of “poor” below the ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process on March 3.
The ICC Match Referee Chris Broad had stated: “The pitch, which was very dry, didn’t present a stability between bat and ball, favouring spinners from the beginning. The fifth ball of the match broke by means of the pitch floor and continued to sometimes break the floor offering little or no seam motion and there was extreme and uneven bounce all through the match.”
Following the report submitted by ICC Match Referee Chris Broad after session with each Rohit Sharma and Steve Smith, the Holkar Stadium acquired three demerit factors.Â
According to the ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process, “a venue will be suspended from hosting any international cricket for a period of 12 months if it accumulates five or more demerit points over a five-year rolling period.”
In the third Test, the hosts had been bowled out for 163 of their second innings, leaving Australia with a goal of simply 76 runs. The pitch which made batters from either side wrestle was in favour of the spinners. Out of the 31 wickets that fell through the third Test, 26 had been taken by the spinners, solely 4 had been taken by the pacers, and one was run out.
Recently, the ICC modified its determination on the Rawalpindi pitch after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had appealed against the ranking. The pitch was initially given a ranking of “below average” and in addition bagged one demerit level. However, within the revised determination and withdrew the punitive measure to the stadium.
