Switchblade Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Quote https://www.crictracker.com/india-vs-windies-lucknow-t20i-will-be-a-low-scoring-affair-says-local-curator/ According to the local curator of Lucknow’s Ekana International Cricket Stadium, the second T20I scheduled on Tuesday is likely to be a low-scoring one with spinners having a lot of possibility of taking the upper edge. While Lucknow is hosting an international cricket match after 24 years, it will be the inaugural game in the newly built Ekana stadium. “It won’t be a high-scoring game for sure. The pitch has long dead grass on both sides with cracks in between. It will be a slow bouncing wicket and spinners are expected to play a big part from the beginning,” the Scroll cited reports quoting the curator as saying. Anything above 130 will be a good score, it was said. “The pitch is made of soil exported from Odisha’s Bolangir which is famous for its slow nature. Both the teams will find it difficult to score runs and hit big shots with long square boundaries.” Another curator, who has also worked on the wicket, said dew will also play a role in making scoring difficult on the surface. He said though the outfield is fast, the fact that winter is setting in North India means dew will be playing a role from the word go and boundaries will be cut down and the batsmen will have to make a lot of running. UrmiSinhaRay 1 Link to comment
zen Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 If there is dew from the word go, spinners may not like it and the ball could skid on UrmiSinhaRay 1 Link to comment
ShoonyaSifar Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 For the first time heard a curator saying we got soil from a particular place because it leads to a slow wicket!! UrmiSinhaRay 1 Link to comment
zen Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 "Both the teams will find it difficult to score runs and hit big shots with long square boundaries" wouldn't the boundaries be pulled in for the T20 game UrmiSinhaRay 1 Link to comment
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