{"id":5346,"date":"2023-01-30T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T06:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=275212"},"modified":"2023-01-30T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T06:40:41","slug":"they-should-make-sure-they-prepare-the-pitches-earlier-indian-captain-hardik-pandya-criticizes-lucknows-ekana-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/they-should-make-sure-they-prepare-the-pitches-earlier-indian-captain-hardik-pandya-criticizes-lucknows-ekana-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey should make sure they prepare the pitches earlier,\u201d Indian captain Hardik Pandya criticizes Lucknow\u2019s Ekana Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">At the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, India levelled the series with just one ball remaining despite needing just 99 runs to win on a wicket that made stroke-making very challenging. In fact, during the game\u2019s 39.5 overs, not a single six was hit.<\/p>\n<p>In his harsh criticism of the pitches provided for the first two T20Is against New Zealand, acting captain Hardik Pandya expressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cTo be honest, it was a shocker of a wicket,\u201d Pandya said at the post-match presentation. \u201cBoth the games we have played so far. I don\u2019t mind difficult wickets. I am all up for that, but these two wickets are not made for T20. Somewhere down the line the curators or the grounds that we are going to play in should make sure they prepare the pitches earlier.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cEven 120 would have been a winning total here. Dew didn\u2019t play much of a role because if you see they were able to spin the ball more than us. It was a shocker of a wicket. The ball was flying for even the fast bowlers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese two wickets are not made for T20.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[143,1520],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-pitch"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","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=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}