Holkar Stadium – Photo: Amar Ujala Expansion This is the first time in Indore’s Holkar Stadium when the Indian team has lost a Test match in Indore. The pitch is being held responsible for this. ICC also considered Indore’s pitch as bad and also gave three demerit points. In fact, the decision to change the pitch in haste and to prepare a new pitch proved to be overkill. Information about Holkar Stadium getting the match After meeting, the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association started preparing the pitch, which was made of yellow soil, but three days before the start of the match 25 BCCI’s senior pitch curator Ashish Bhowmik and Tapus Chatterjee had come to Indore in February. A black soil pitch was prepared under their supervision and the Test match was played on the same pitch. Whose decision was it and on whose advice was the pitch changed? No one wants to take responsibility for this. The team management wanted the match to be played on a black clay pitch. Three days before the start of the match, the black soil pitch was made. On March 1, the Indian batsmen came out to bat on the same pitch and half the team had returned to the pavilion within an hour. 233 wickets fell on that pitch in two days. BCCI Instructions pitch prepared in Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association President Abhilash Khandekar told Amar Ujala that in international matches the pitch is prepared only under the instructions and supervision of the BCCI. The pitch curators of MPCA only help in this. Match on second pitch
750 Former BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale told Amar Ujala that the yellow clay pitch was made at Holkar Stadium. Before the start of the match, the officials associated with the Indian team management, BCCI’s pitch curator had arrived. The pitch made of black soil was prepared under his supervision. The match has also been played on the same.