Guwahati pitch disappointing: Sanjay Manjrekar:
Nov 5: Former India Test cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has said the pitch at the Nehru Stadium at Guwahatai where Indian won the first of the five-match ODI series against Pakistan was not a sporting pitch.
“Guwahati fans were obviously over the moon to get an international match. But the surface that the Assam Cricket Association provided was really disappointing,’’ he wrote in a syndicated column.
“A typical Indian domestic Cricket pitch. When I was touring with the Indian team, I would often be asked, what level of first class Cricket we had back home. I would say ‘knee level’.
“Yes, you could actually go through a whole domestic season and be able to count on your fingers the balls that bounced over the knee level. Pitches like these have been the bane of Indian Cricket. If Indians have excelled at all at the international stage, it’s been, despite our pitches,’’ Manjrekar said.
Pakistan media miss Guwahati ODI:
Nov 5: A total of 46 Pakistani journalists have been given media accreditation for the ongoing India-Pakistan cricket series but none have landed in India so far, perhaps due to the state of emergency imposed in that country.
No Pakistani journalist covered the first One-day International at Guwahati on Monday, a Pakistani team official said from the Nehru Stadium.
“Thirty-two journalists from the print media, nine from the electronic arm, three cameramen and two photographers have got the accreditation from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
On Pakistan’s previous tour of India in 2005, many more journalists had come to cover the series. The Pakistani team is on a 42-day tour of India -- their second to this country in a little over two years.
Source: Indo-Asian News Service
