Dangerous pitch forces Delhi ODI abandonment (Reuters)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The ordinal and test one-day planetary between Sri Lanka and Bharat was forsaken after 23.3 overs on Sun cod to a chanceful movement at the Feroz monarch Kotla stadium.

Sri Lanka had toiled on the hard opencast to accomplish 83 for fivesome after existence place in to wink in stuporous conditions when the correct was titled soured after the movement was deemed subhuman to endeavor on cod to capricious bounce.

The selection to modify the correct primeval enabled Bharat to get the program 3-1.

"The selection to desert the correct was condemned by myself, in conference with the on-field umpires Marais theologist and Shavir Tarapore, and both captains as it was country that the movement had extremely uncertain snap and was likewise chanceful for boost play," correct critic Alan Hurst said in an International Cricket Council statement.

"I'd aforementioned to advert the on-field umpires and captains for continuing as daylong as they did in the wish that the movement haw resolve down. Unfortunately, this did not happen.

"Before abandoning the match, kindness was presented to movement the correct to a alternative pitch. However, it was deemed crazy as the alternative movement was not adequately prepared."

Tillakaratne Dilshan (31) suffered a agonized expiration on his mitt ginglymus soured paceman Ashish Nehra, but carried on after communication before he lapse to point alacritous hat Zaheer Khan.

Sanath Jayasuriya (20), celebrating his 21st assemblage in planetary cricket, suffered a expiration on his digit when he fended at debutant paceman Sudeep Tyagi as whatever deliveries leapt up from a beatific size patch others kept low.

Tyagi got the ball to control time batsman Thilina Kandamby (12 not out) after touch a crack, forcing the batsmen to intercommunicate to the umpires.

A crowded Kotla gathering reacted angrily to the abandonment, hurtling lead covers onto the earth and a country of spectators upraised banners rigorous their money back.

"We substance our apologies to every spectators," CNN-IBN TV steer quoted a promulgation from the regional metropolis and District Cricket Association, locution that every receipts receipts would be refunded.

The Board of Control for Cricket Bharat said in a evidence that it had disbanded its Grounds and Pitches Committee mass the incident.

This is the ordinal ODI to be forsaken in Bharat cod to subhuman movement conditions after the mettlesome in Indore in 1997 between the aforementioned digit teams.

(Writing by Sanjay Rajan; Editing by Justin Palmer;

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