India captain Rohit Sharma and senior batter Virat Kohli lauded the R Premadasa Stadium’s groundstaff after India vs Pakistan supplied a consequence within the Asia Cup. A rain-affected recreation, which had a number of interruptions over two days, noticed India defeat Pakistan by a document margin of 228 runs – after 58 overs of play was doable on Monday, 11 September.
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India vs Pakistan got here to a halt on Sunday – the unique day of the fixture after rain got here bucketing down within the twenty fifth over of the primary innings. The Colombo groundstaff labored onerous between 4:53 PM (recreation stoppage) to eight:30 PM (third umpire inspection) to save lots of the bottom from thundershowers. Just when it appeared like Sunday would see the resumption of the sport, the clouds opened themselves up as soon as once more to place water on any hopes.
On Monday, the showers have been persistent within the morning and the commentators have been stunned to search out that the covers had been put so nicely earlier than the showers arrived that the bottom beneath had remained fairly dry.
The groundstaff used followers and lights to dry up the moist patches and full overs of play was doable on Monday.
“A loud shout out to all the groundsmen for the work they have put in to make this game possible. They did a fantastic job,” mentioned Virat Kohli whereas accepting his participant of the match award.
Sharma, however expressed how necessary it was for his group to get a while within the center and lauded the employees for his or her efforts.
“We are happy to get some game time. Lot of guys did not have game time and that was great support from the groundsman as well. From the word go, they were right on the money. I know how difficult it was to come and do the job, do it the next day. We would like to thank them as a team,” Sharma mentioned within the publish match presentation.
“It was important to get some game time. It was more possible due to these guys who have put in the effort,” Sharma additional added.
Groundstaff are anticipated to be known as into motion as soon as once more in India’s Super 4 recreation vs Sri Lanka, set to be performed on Tuesday, 12 September.
Edited By:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published On:
Sep 12, 2023