Former India cricketer Mohammed Kaif has made explosive allegations that the ODI World Cup Closing pitch on the Narendra Modi Stadium was doctored to swimsuit the house workforce. Talking completely on Lallantop, Kaif has stated that the ultimate’s pitch was made slower by the Board of Management for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) curators to swimsuit the Indian aspect.
India had fallen to a heartbreaking loss in opposition to the Australian aspect on a sluggish pitch in Ahmedabad on November 19. The Indian workforce had failed with the bat within the last and misplaced the match by 6 wickets. Despatched to bat first, India had introduced up simply 240 runs, which Australia had chased down in 43 overs, owing to a shocking century by Travis Head.
INDIA DOCTORED WC FINAL PITCH: KAIF
Kaif argued that the Indian workforce had tousled and have been overwhelmed in their very own plan by Pat Cummins’ Australia.
Kaif’s explosive revelations come on the backdrop of a a lot controversial exit of ICC’s pitch advisor Andy Atinkson, who had exited the ODI World Cup simply forward of the ultimate – alleged attributable to his variations with the BCCI on how the pitch must be for the ultimate.
“I used to be there for 3 days. Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid inspected the pitch daily for 3 days forward of the ultimate. They stood beside the pitch for an hour daily. I noticed the pitch change its color. There was no watering the pitch, no grass on the monitor. India wished to provide Australia a gradual monitor. That is the reality, even when folks do not need to imagine it,” Kaif stated on Lallantop in an unique interview.
“The sensation was that Australia had Pat Cummins, and Mitchell Starc, so India wished to provide a gradual pitch, and that was our mistake. Many individuals say that curators do their very own factor and we do not affect – that’s garbage. If you find yourself shifting across the pitch – it’s important to say simply two traces – please do not put water, simply cut back the grass. This occurs. That’s fact. And it must be performed. You might be enjoying at dwelling. And we did it somewhat an excessive amount of,” Kaif added.
The previous Delhi Capitals assistant coach argued that Pat Cummins had learnt his classes from the defeat in opposition to India of their ODI World Cup opener and had put that information to good use.
“Cummins took the training from Chennai that batting is hard at the beginning in a gradual match. No person fields first in a last, however Cummins did. We tousled whereas doctoring the pitch,” Kaif concluded.
BCCI VS ICC ON WC FINAL PITCH
Through the ODI World Cup, the BCCI had not commented on ICC pitch advisor Atkinson’s exit. Nevertheless, PTI had quoted a BCCI official on the time who had tried to kill the controversy by saying that Atkinson’s contract had come to an finish.
“Andy’s task is over and he has gone again. Do not attempt to discover controversy the place there may be none. Nowhere it’s written that ICC’s pitch advisor must be current earlier than the ultimate,” a BCCI supply advised PTI on situations of anonymity.
Atkinson wasn’t precisely a favorite with the BCCI brass on the time after he accused the host nation of adjusting monitor for the semi-final between India and New Zealand from a recent to a used one. Nevertheless, the ICC had later despatched a clarification that there isn’t any such rule of holding knock-out matches on a recent monitor and Atkinson was apprised of the event prematurely.
After the event, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) rated the pitch at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium as common.
