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The ICC has announced the pitch rating to be used in the T20 World Cup 2024. In which the pitch of many matches has been described as satisfactory, but the biggest blow from this report has been to the Afghanistan cricket team. The Afghanistan team lost the final match to South Africa in a shameful manner.
The T20 World Cup 2024 was hosted by the US and the West Indies. The opening matches of the tournament were played in the US while all the final matches were played in the West Indies. In this tournament, Team India won the title by defeating South Africa. However, in all the matches played in the US in this tournament, the batsmen had to struggle a lot. On these pitches, the batsmen were completely struggling against the bowlers. After this, there were allegations that the American pitches were not made up to the standards, which had a great impact on the results of the matches. Now the ICC has released a rating regarding the World Cup pitch, in which the pitch of the final match of the World Cup has been considered the best pitch.
ICC released pitch report
The pitch report of the matches played on all the grounds in the T20 World Cup 2024 has been declared by the ICC match referee. In which America has been given relief by the ICC. The ICC has given a clean chit to America and has considered the pitches in all the matches played there as satisfactory. This also includes the match between India and Pakistan, in which Team India won by snatching the game from Pakistan.
Flaws found in 3 pitches
In its report, ICC has termed 3 pitches as unsatisfactory. Out of which 2 pitches were from America while 1 pitch was from West Indies. A total of 52 matches were played in the tournament, out of which ICC gave satisfactory rating to 31 pitches and good rating to 18 pitches.
The pitch was good in all the matches of India
In the group stage, India had to play a total of 4 matches in America. One of these matches against Canada was cancelled due to rain. Apart from this, India played matches against Pakistan, Ireland and America, all of which India won. India also played three Super-8s, semi-finals and one final in the tournament, in which all the pitches were declared satisfactory.
Afghanistan suffered heavy losses
In the ICC report, only 3 pitches were declared unsatisfactory. This includes the semi-final match played between Afghanistan and South Africa. This match between Afghanistan and South Africa was played in Trinidad, West Indies, in which Afghanistan's team was all out for 56 runs while batting first. After this match, questions started being raised on the pitch.