ICC gave satisfactory rating to Sydney pitch: India-Australia fifth Test was played here; The remaining four venues of BGT were declared very good.

India lost by 6 wickets in the Sydney Test. This photo is from the same match.

The ICC has given a ‘satisfactory’ rating to the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) pitch used for the fifth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT). The last match of the five-match series between India and Australia was played in Sydney. In this, India lost by 6 wickets.

The remaining four BGT venues – Perth’s Optus Stadium, Adelaide Oval, Brisbane’s Gabba and Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) have received ‘very good’ ratings.

Gavaskar had criticized the Sydney pitch The Sydney Test was over before the tea break on the third day i.e. in just two and a half days. In this, 11 wickets fell on the first day, 15 on the second day and 8 wickets on the third day. Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar had strongly criticized the Sydney pitch during the commentary and said that if the match in India ends in 3 days, then there will be a lot of chaos.

He said after the match, this is not an ideal Test match pitch as you want, because you want the match to go on till the fourth and fifth day. If 15 wickets had fallen in India (in one day), there would have been a lot of drama.

ICC rules regarding pitch ICC had divided its pitch rating system into four categories. This includes very good, satisfactory, unsatisfactory and unfit. Under ICC’s ‘Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process’, the pitch and outfield are monitored during all matches. The ICC awards one demerit point to a pitch and outfield that the match referee considers unsatisfactory.

If a venue receives 6 or more demerit points within 5 years, it is banned for 12 months. That means no international match takes place at that venue for a year. Whereas on getting 12 demerit points, you are banned for 24 months.

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