{"id":20552,"date":"2023-04-07T22:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=297337"},"modified":"2023-04-07T22:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:18:01","slug":"pitch-reports-arent-very-reliable-these-days-former-indian-cricketer-on-ekana-stadiums-poor-pitch-on-lsg-vs-srh-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/pitch-reports-arent-very-reliable-these-days-former-indian-cricketer-on-ekana-stadiums-poor-pitch-on-lsg-vs-srh-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitch reports aren\u2019t very reliable these days: Former Indian cricketer on Ekana Stadium\u2019s poor pitch on LSG vs SRH match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium of Lucknow hosted tonight\u2019s game of LSG vs SRH but the pitch doesn\u2019t seem to happy the fans and experts.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the pitch of Ekana stadium usually benefits the first innings batters and despite the dew factor, the bowlers get a plus point in the second innings because of the pitch\u2019s play after 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>But tonight the pitch was claimed \u201cpoor\u201d by the fans and cricket pundits as the low-scoring match between LSG vs SRH was surely not worth buying tickets for.<\/p>\n<p>The spinners played a huge role in the first innings but the flat surface has always outbeaten batters despite their experience in international cricket.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most well-known and respected cricket expert, Aakash Chopra, concurred that the Lucknow pitch actually performed considerably differently from the pitch reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pitch-reports from the venue aren\u2019t very reliable these days.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketaakash\/status\/1644348404007571456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium of Lucknow hosted tonight\u2019s game of LSG vs SRH but the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":41095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1520],"class_list":["post-20552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-pitch"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552","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=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}