The Rohit Sharma-led Workforce India whitewashed Sri Lanka within the two-match Take a look at sequence by triumphing the pink ball sport in Bengaluru with an enormous margin of 238 runs. The hosts, earlier, gained the primary Take a look at in Mohali by a heavy margin of 222 runs and an innings.
Following India’s clear sweep within the longest format, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has delivered its verdict on the Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch used for the second Take a look at. The pitch acquired a below-average ranking within the report submitted by ICC Match Referee for the sport, Javagal Srinath. In consequence, the venue will obtain one demerit beneath the ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Course of.
“The pitch provided a number of activate the primary day itself and although it improved with each session, in my opinion, it was not a good contest between bat and ball,” Srinath stated in his assertion. The report has now been handed on to the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI), the ICC stated in its press launch.
As per the revised ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Course of: “The venues whose pitches are rated beneath common by match referees obtain one demerit level, whereas three and 5 demerit factors are awarded to venues whose pitches are marked as poor and unfit respectively.
Demerit factors stay energetic for a rolling five-year interval and if it accumulates 5 demerit factors or extra, it’s suspended from internet hosting any worldwide cricket for a interval of 12 months.”
In the meantime, with the Take a look at sequence win, India have moved as much as the quantity 4 place within the ICC World Take a look at Championship standings.
