{"id":20202,"date":"2023-01-31T19:59:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=275636"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:29:45","slug":"tata-ipl-2023-upca-set-to-hire-two-specialists-to-avoid-pitch-disasters-during-the-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2023-upca-set-to-hire-two-specialists-to-avoid-pitch-disasters-during-the-ipl\/","title":{"rendered":"TATA IPL 2023: UPCA set to\u00a0hire \u2018two specialists\u2019\u00a0to avoid pitch disasters during the IPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to prevent a repeat of the recent pitch disaster during the upcoming Indian Premier League season, the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) has declared that it will appoint two experts for Lucknow\u2019s Ekana Stadium (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/they-should-make-sure-they-prepare-the-pitches-earlier-indian-captain-hardik-pandya-criticizes-lucknows-ekana-stadium\/\">\u201cThey should make sure they prepare the pitches earlier,\u201d Indian captain Hardik Pandya criticizes Lucknow\u2019s Ekana Stadium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to appoint two specialists who will take care of the stadium. One will be an expert on the pitch and another will be a professional on the outfield. We are taking required permissions from other state associations to hire their services,\u201d said Ankit Chatterjee, the CEO of the UPCA and confirmed the association\u2019s decision to part ways with the curator responsible for the preparation of the substandard pitch during the recent Twenty20 International.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2023-lsgs-hosting-venue-ekana-cricket-stadium-sacks-pitch-curator-after-ind-vs-nz-controversial-pitch-arguments\/\">TATA IPL 2023: LSG\u2019s hosting venue Ekana Cricket Stadium sacks pitch curator after IND vs NZ controversial pitch arguments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to prevent a repeat of the recent pitch disaster during the upcoming Indian Premier League season, the Uttar\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":40814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3021,2991,2278],"class_list":["post-20202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-lsg","tag-lucknow-super-giants","tag-upca"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}