The International Cricket Council (ICC) has modified the pitch score of Indore’s Holkar Stadium – the venue for the third Test between India and Australia – to ‘below average’ from ‘poor’ following a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) enchantment. The ICC additionally gave the Narendra Modi Stadium pitch in Ahmedabad, the venue for the fourth Test, an ‘average’ score for the sluggish batting deck the place each groups had one accomplished innings every.
The match had led to a tame draw, with India successful the collection 2-1. At Indore, Australia had defeated India by 9 wickets inside three days of the Border-Gavaskar Test to safe a World Test Championship closing berth.
The ICC enchantment panel reviewed the sooner resolution of the match referee Chris Broad and located that there was not sufficient extreme variable bounce to warrant the ‘poor’ score. The pitch, which had initially acquired three demerit factors, 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 assertion on Monday (March 27).
“The panel, therefore, concluded that the pitch should be rated ‘below average’, meaning the Holkar Stadium will receive only one demerit point instead of the original three.”
_ The pitch score for Indore’s Holkar Stadium, which was initially rated “poor”, has been modified.
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— ICC (@ICC) March 27, 2023
The Holkar Stadium pitch supplied numerous assist to the spinners, with 14 wickets falling on the primary day and, out of the 31 wickets to fall within the Test, 26 had been picked up by spinners. At Ahmedabad, Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green scored centuries for Australia within the Test, whereas for India, Virat Kohli and younger Shubman Gill hit tons.
The ICC match referee nevertheless gave ‘very good’ score 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.
