“Everybody Else Stays Out…”: With Pitch In Focus For World Cup Final, Australia Great Says This | Cricket News

India’s win over New Zealand within the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup was marred by a “pitch swapping” controversy. The International Cricket Council’s head pitch marketing consultant had accused the host nation accused of adjusting monitor for the semi-final between India and New Zealand from a contemporary to a used one. Just a few reviews urged that whereas a contemporary pitch was initially ready for the last-four match on the Wankhede Stadium, later it was determined to play the sport on a “used” deck in an effort to assist Indian spinners.

However, the ICC later confirmed that Atkinson was taken into confidence on the change of floor, and the choice to vary the monitor has nothing unusual to it.

“Changes to planned pitch rotations are common towards the end of an event of this length, and have already happened a couple of times. This change was made on the recommendation of the venue curator in conjunction with our host,” the ICC mentioned in an announcement.

With hosts India set to tackle Australia within the ultimate on Sunday, the talk across the pitch has hogged all of the limelight.

However, former Australia captain Ian Chappell insisted that the “local curators” must be left to hold out their work with out anybody else’s interference.

“I think the same as I’ve always thought; that the curator should make the pitch and the players play on it and it should be up to no one else other than the curator, the local curator,” Ian Chappell informed Wide World of Sports.

“I’ve always said about every pitch – don’t worry about World Cups, anything else – the curator makes the pitch and everybody else stays out of it.”

On Friday, Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood mentioned he’s assured that curators will carve out a pitch appropriate for everybody.

“We played England at Ahmedabad and the wicket was pretty good without being an absolute flat track, so I expect probably something similar to that,” Hazlewood informed Cricket.com.au.