Lucknow curator sacked for ‘shocker of a pitch’ for second India-NZ T20I

Though India gained the sport on Sunday with a ball to spare, the wicket obtained criticism from India captain Hardik Pandya, who known as it a “shocker of a pitch”. New Zealand have been restricted to 99 for 8 in 20 overs and India had a tough time chasing the small goal, successful in 19.5 overs. Spinners bowled 30 of the 40 overs in a match that had zero sixes.

“The curator has been removed and replaced by Sanjeev Kumar Agarwal who is a very experienced curator,” a UPCA supply was quoted as saying by PTI. “We will turn things around in a month.

“A variety of home cricket was already performed on all of the centre wickets forward of the T20I and the curator ought to have left one or two strips for a global sport. The floor was overused and because of the unhealthy climate, there was not sufficient (time) to arrange a contemporary wicket.”

Agarwal has experience preparing pitches in Bangladesh in the past before being removed in October last year. According to the source, he will work closely with veteran BCCI curator Taposh Chatterjee.

Hardik has not been happy with the quality of pitches so far in the T20I series. “To be trustworthy, it was a shocker of a wicket,” Hardik told Star Sports after the second T20I. “Both the video games we have now performed on thus far. I do not thoughts tough wickets. I’m all up for that, however these two wickets usually are not made for T20. Somewhere down the road, the curators or the grounds that we’re going to play in ought to be sure they put together the pitches earlier.”

With the T20I collection stage at 1-1, India and New Zealand play the decider in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.

Source web site: www.espncricinfo.com

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