Lucknow Pitch Curator Sacked For Preparing a ‘Shocker’ In 2nd T20I

The curator of the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow has actually been eliminated from his work after preparing a “shocker of a pitch” for the 2nd T20I versusNew Zealand Though India won the video game on Sunday with a round to extra, captain Hardik Pandya did not dice his words, calling the Lucknow archa “shocker” New Zealand were limited to 99 for 8 as well as India had a difficult time chasing after the little target on a transforming track. “The curator has been removed and replaced by Sanjeev Kumar Agarwal who is a very experienced curator. We will turn things around in a month.

” A great deal of residential cricket was currently used all the centre gates in advance of the T20I as well as the curator must have left 1 or 2 strips for a global video game. The surface area was excessive used as well as as a result of the negative weather condition, there was insufficient (time) to prepare a fresh arch,” a UPCA source told PTI.

Agarwal, who has prepared pitches in Bangladesh in the past before being removed in October last year, has been tasked to set things right as far as pitch-making is concerned. He will work closely with veteran BCCI curator Taposh Chatterjee, said the source.

The T20I series decider will be played in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.

Hardik has not been happy with the surfaces on offer so far in the series.

“To be straightforward, it was a surprise of a arch. Both the video games we have actually used thus far. I do not mind challenging gates. I am all up for that, however these 2 gates are not created T20. Somewhere down the line, the managers or the premises that we are mosting likely to play in must make certain they prepare the pitches previously,” Hardik had actually claimed after the six-wicket win in Lucknow.

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