{"id":5559,"date":"2023-02-26T04:43:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T23:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=283466"},"modified":"2023-02-26T04:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T23:13:37","slug":"ind-vs-aus-officials-focus-on-pitch-preparations-after-icc-ranks-average-rating-for-the-first-two-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-aus-officials-focus-on-pitch-preparations-after-icc-ranks-average-rating-for-the-first-two-test\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs AUS: Officials focus on pitch preparations after ICC ranks \u2018average\u2019 rating for the first two test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the Indore Test, the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association has prepared a red-soil pitch with plenty of bounce.<\/p>\n<p>Recently ICC\u00a0 gave the pitches in Nagpur and Delhi a rating after Australia suffered back-to-back series losses to India in the first two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports in the Australian media, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, both pitches received a \u201caverage\u201d rating from the ICC and match referee.<\/p>\n<p>The pitch at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur has been rated as \u201caverage\u201d by both the sport\u2019s governing body and its match referee, Andy Pycroft of Zimbabwe. Pycroft also gave the pitch for the second Test at Delhi\u2019s Arun Jaitley Stadium, \u201caverage\u201d rating.<\/p>\n<p>Mayank Agarwal scored a double century while pacers rattled Bangladesh, who were batting first, the last time India played a Test in Indore. In fact, as India completed the Test in three days, pacers dominated proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a lot of international cricket recently, the venue hasn\u2019t seen a lot of Tests. One thing is clear from ODIs and T20s: batters will enjoy playing on this pitch, unlike Nagpur or Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Indore Test, the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association has prepared a red-soil pitch with plenty of bounce. Recently ICC\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3515,1088,3527],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bgt23","tag-border-gavaskar-trophy","tag-indore-test"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","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=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}