After the Indian batting miserably failed in the final match of the World Cup between India and Australia, concerns regarding the ‘pitch’ have increased.
The Indian team, famous for its great batting, which seemed to give big targets to the opposing teams in all the matches of the World Cup, but could only target 240 runs in 50 overs against Australia in the final match of the event, which batted at the second place. In doing so, the Kangaroos comfortably won the World Cup for the sixth time.
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting blamed India’s ‘tampering with the pitch’ for the defeat of the Indian team against Australia in the final match of the World Cup.
He said that ‘in today’s match there were subcontinental conditions, the choice of wicket may have cost India dearly’.
It may be recalled that the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) was accused of changing the pitch of the World Cup semi-final match between New Zealand and India without the permission of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
In this regard, the ICC in its explanatory statement says that the pitch has been changed many times before in the World Cup, before the semi-final, the pitch was changed on the recommendation of the ground curator and the host country and it came to this. CC’s pitch was known to the consultant.
It should be noted that despite all the maneuvers and conspiracies, India fell apart and Australia became the king of cricket again.
Thanks to brilliant bowling and Travis Head’s match-winning century, Australia defeated hosts India by 6 wickets on their own soil and became the World Cup cricket world champions for a record sixth time.
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