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England’s Ben Stokes (R) walks past Pakistan captain Babar Azam after his victory at the end of the fifth and final day of the first cricket Test match (AFP Image)
The ICC said in a media release that it reviewed the footage of the Test match after the PCB’s appeal.
international Cricket The Council (ICC) on Monday said that the demerit point awarded to the Rawalpindi pitch for the first Pakistan-England Test from December 1 to 5 last year has been canceled following an appeal by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
The ICC said in a media release that after reviewing footage of the Test match after the PCB appealed, the ICC Appeals Panel, consisting of the ICC General Manager – Cricket and the Chairman of the ICC Men’s Cricket Committee, were unanimous in their opinion that The guidelines were followed by the match referee in accordance with Appendix A of the pitch monitoring procedure.
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At the same time, he noted that there were several redeeming features – including the fact that a result was achieved after a compelling game, in which 37 wickets out of a possible 39 were taken. As such, the appeals panel concluded that the wicket did not warrant a “below average” rating.
Earlier, on December 13, 2022, the ICC had given the pitch a ‘below average’ rating, making it the second demerit point for the venue after the pitch for the first Test between Pakistan and Australia in March this year. Where 1187 runs were scored. The total was made and only 14 wickets fell in five days, which was rated “below average”.
While in the opening Test of the series England cruised to a famous 74-run victory after scoring 506 on the first day, and batsmen from both teams scored seven centuries, the pitch was on fire to provide little assistance to the bowlers in five. Went. day competition. Former PCB chairman Rameez Raja termed the pitch as ‘disgraceful’ during the lunch break on the second day of the match.
“It was a very flat pitch which offered almost no assistance to any type of bowler. This was the main reason why the batsmen scored very quickly and both sides made big scores. The pitch hardly deteriorated during the match. As there was little in it for the bowlers, I found the pitch to be “below average” according to ICC guidelines,” said Andy Pycroft, the ICC match referee at the time.
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