The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) determined to vary the pitch score for the third Take a look at between India and Australia in Indore. After the match referee gave the Holkar Stadium pitch a ‘poor’ score, the Board of Contol for Cricket in India (BCCI) determined to lodge an attraction. In what will be referred to as a profitable end result from the attraction, the score was revised from ‘poor’ to ‘under common’. Nonetheless, the ICC’s resolution hasn’t gone down properly with a bit of Australian media.

Criticising the apex board’s resolution, an Australian outlet branded the choice as ‘ridiculous’. Even Australia’s former cricketer and coach Darren Lehmann reacted to the information on social media.

— Darren Lehmann (@darren_lehmann) March 27, 2023

“The pitch, which was very dry, didn’t present a stability between bat and ball, favouring spinners from the beginning,” match referee Chris Broad wrote in his report.

“The fifth ball of the match broke by means of the pitch floor and continued to sometimes break the floor offering little or no seam motion and there was extreme and uneven bounce all through the match,” he had added.

After the BCCI lodged an attraction, footage from the match was reviewed, primarily based on which the score was upgraded to ‘under common’.

Explaining the choice, ICC stated in a press release: “The footage from the Take a look at was reviewed by an ICC attraction panel consisting of Wasim Khan, ICC Normal Supervisor – Cricket, and Roger Harper, ICC Males’s Cricket Committee Member. Each have been of the opinion that, whereas the rules had been adopted by the Match Referee in accordance with Appendix A of the Pitch Monitoring Course of, there was not sufficient extreme variable bounce to warrant the ‘poor’ score.

“The panel, due to this fact, concluded that the pitch ought to be rated ‘under common’, that means the Holkar Stadium will obtain just one demerit level as a substitute of the unique three.”

On the Holkar Stadium, 14 wickets fell on the primary day and, out of the 31 wickets to fall within the Take a look at, 26 went to spinners.