Black Caps - Bangladesh tour
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update on the pitch
Mirpur wicket "unsatisfactory"
The International Cricket Council says the pitch for the second test between the Black Caps and Bangladesh was "unsatisfactory".
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@nzzp said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:
update on the pitch
Mirpur wicket "unsatisfactory"
The International Cricket Council says the pitch for the second test between the Black Caps and Bangladesh was "unsatisfactory".
The win was satisfactory though
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@MN5 said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:
The win was satisfactory though
pitches like that make me want to support 'away team decides to bat or bowl'. It forces curators to make fair pitches; you have to balance it as you know your team is going to cop the bad end
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The venue has incurred one demerit point.
When a venue accumulates six demerit points (or crosses that threshold), it will be suspended from hosting any international cricket for 12 months, while a venue will be suspended from staging any international cricket for 24 months when it reaches the threshold of 12 demerit points.
Seems like a pretty minor slap on the wrist doesn't it?
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@Darren said in Black Caps - Bangladesh tour:
Seems like a pretty minor slap on the wrist doesn't it?
Yep. Hosts 2-3 tests a year, so would take a fair while to stop hosting ... for a year
. Nice work ICC
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- One demerit point will be awarded to venues whose pitches are rated by the match referees as below average, while three and five demerit points will be awarded to venues whose pitches are marked as poor and unfit, respectively.
- No demerit point will be awarded when the outfield is rated as below average, but two and five demerit points will be awarded to venues whose outfields are marked as poor and unfit, respectively.
- Demerit points will remain active for a rolling five-year period.
- When a venue accumulates five demerit points (or crosses that threshold), it will be suspended from hosting any international cricket for a period of 12 months, while a venue will be suspended from staging any international cricket for 24 months when it reaches the threshold of 10 demerit points
So they just rated this pitch as below average.
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Bangladesh is more 'centric' than most. In that Mirpur does host the majority of their matches. E.g. They have hosted 9 of their last 15 tests at Mirpur.
So, two
below averagepoor rated pitches in a 5 year period would have a huge impact.While, a 'below average' is fairly meaningless, even for a board that is so centrally based around 1 major ground.
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Pitches that have been rated poor recently, hav ebeen 'appealed' anyway.
Indore got rated poor this year after one of the Ind v Aus test, but then got appealed and up-rated to below average. And India have about 20 odd test grounds to chose from, so meaningless at a national board level for them anyway even if it stood. But pricks the pride of the local sate board or curator.
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Another recent controversy was a Rawalpindi pitch that produced a bore-draw and was only rated as below average, rather than poor. I also vaguely recall an MCG one from an Ashes series, maybe when Alisitair Cook got a big double hundred, don't know of they had the current pitch rating system then.
11 Mar 2022
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium given one demerit point for the surface produced for the lifeless opening Test between Pakistan and Australia... has officially been rated "below average" by the match referee and given a demerit point.
In all, 1,187 runs were scored for the loss of only 14 wickets.
and
03 Jan 2018. MCG on notice after ICC rates pitch 'poor'
Had the Test finished two days later, the nation’s most famous cricket ground would have been slapped with three demerit points as part of a new ‘name and shame’ system from the ICC that came into effect on Monday.
MCG on notice after ICC rates pitch 'poor' | cricket.com.au
MCG pitch in spotlight after governing body hands famous venue a formal warning
