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Capital Shame The pitch at the Ferozeshah Kotla has drawn plenty of flak in the recent past for being slow, low and unsuitable for strokeplay. But on Sunday, in front of a packed house, it was declared unsuitable for cricket itself. The Sri Lankan visitors, having been put in to bat, had more than a few bruises to show as they reached 83 for five but when, in the 24th over, a 130-kmph half-tracker from debutant Sudeep Tyagi spat off the strip and exploded over a clueless Thilina Kandamby, the captains, coaches, curators, umpires and match officials got into a concerned huddle, before trooping off the field. The final match of the India-Sri Lanka one-day series was first “suspended” at 11.40 am and then, an hour later, abandoned due to unsuitable playing conditions, sparking a near-riot in the stadium and a blame-game on the sidelines. It also resulted, a couple of hours later, in the disbanding of the BCCI’s Pitches and Grounds Committee. And after a lengthy DDCA meeting, the association sent out a release, saying local curator Vijay Bahadur Mishra and Chetan Chauhan, who heads their grounds committee, had resigned. Back |
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