ICC scrutinizes Chittagong Test pitch

ICC scrutinizes Chittagong Test pitch 

The International Cricket Council on Tuesday punished the "underneath normal" contribute Chittagong after batsmen ravaged more than 1,500 keeps running amid a week ago's Test amongst Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Five centuries and six half-hundreds of years were crushed more than five days at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium before the groups acknowledged an attract the opening Test of the two-coordinate arrangement.

Sri Lanka - who proclaimed at a giant 713 for nine in their first and final innings - scrutinized the pitch after the match.

ICC coordinate ref David Boon said the pitch "gave no crease development to the quick bowlers with the new ball and furthermore needed to convey and bob all through the match."

He included that the pitch gave "intermittent moderate turn for the spinners at an early stage" yet did not decay not surprisingly finished the course of the Test.

That came about "in a pitch that too intensely supported the batsmen over the five days," Boon said in an ICC articulation issued Tuesday.

Cricket's overseeing body gave one negative mark point to the Chittagong pitch, rating it "underneath normal".

Any ground that gets five faults from the ICC more than five years is suspended from facilitating universal cricket for a year.

Chittagong is the second Bangladeshi setting to be censured in simply a large portion of a year.

In September, the ICC appraised the outfield of Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium "poor" after the hosts vanquished Australia by 20 keeps running in a Test coordinate.