Cape Town’s ‘pitch peril’

Updated On: 10 January, 2024 09:09 PM IST | Mumbai | Srijanee Majumdar

Over the years, the evaluation and grading of cricket pitches have stirred considerable controversy within the cricketing realm

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Indian players look on as a groundsman services the pitch during the second day of the second cricket Test match between South Africa and India at Newlands stadium. Pic/AFP

The Newlands’ deck did its best to realign the world’s attention to itself by having the ball spitting and rising throughout the second and final Test between India and South Africa last week. Quite alarmingly, the ball kept swinging on the surface from day one and continued to do so for all 642 balls that were played.

The match worked out in India’s favour, but hosts South Africa struggled to disentangle themselves from incessant pitch debacle. India defeated South Africa by seven wickets on Thursday to level the two-match series in a game that lasted not longer than 107 overs and was the shortest Test to produce a result. Unsurprisingly – and understandably, hence – the Newlands pitch, a product of the Proteas` push for a paceman`s paradise on which they hoped to unsettle the Men in Blue, was rated ‘unsatisfactory’ by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday.

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