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<title>Multan and Rawalpindi pitches get &#39;satisfactory&#39; rating for all three Pakistan-England Tests</title>
<description>The series, which Pakistan won 2-1, drew widespread attention for the pitches that were prepared</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:45:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The pitch curator&#39;s job is a different ball game these days</title>
<description>Getting the wicket right, especially for T20, is a jigsaw puzzle</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:07:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>T20 World Cup 2024: New York, Tarouba pitches rated &#39;unsatisfactory&#39; by ICC</title>
<description>The pitch for the India vs Pakistan game, where India won by six runs after scoring just 119, has been rated &quot;satisfactory&quot;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:28:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>T20 can be fun without the ball-bashing too</title>
<description>We&#39;ve got used to floods of runs, but low-scoring T20 games can often be engrossing, as the World Cup has showed</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 03:58:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Stats - New York pitch a dream for fast bowlers, a nightmare for batters</title>
<description>All the gory numbers from the eight T20 World Cup 2024 games hosted by the Nassau County International Stadium</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:31:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Explainer - what&#39;s wrong with the T20 World Cup pitches in New York?</title>
<description>The drop-in pitches at the venue haven&#39;t produced ideal T20 cricket, and the relentless schedule of eight matches in ten days isn&#39;t helping</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:17:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Undercooked pitch could undermine India-Pakistan spectacle</title>
<description>There is excessive seam movement and bounce, batters are getting hit by the ball, and conditions have been anything but standard</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:32:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>ICC working to improve quality of pitches at New York venue</title>
<description>The pitches have come in for criticism after the surfaces used for the first two games were extremely hard to bat on</description>
<link>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1437108.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:31:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ponting asks batters to &#39;lower expectations&#39; about big totals at T20 World Cup</title>
<description>Pitches in the USA and the Caribbean may not always be conducive to 200-plus totals</description>
<link>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1436882.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:29:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pitch imperfect: New York&#39;s World Cup debut leaves questions to answer</title>
<description>A low-scoring game dominated by the bowlers was not the ideal way to launch a tournament which hopes to embrace a new audience</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:33:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New York&#39;s beautiful monster: how a cricket venue was created from scratch</title>
<description>In Eisenhower Park on the outskirts of the city, a stadium has come up in a race against the clock</description>
<link>http://www.espncricinfo.com/tcm/content/story/1435720.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:32:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What is a bad pitch?</title>
<description>The track at Newlands, and the cricket it produced, was like something from the 1800s, leading to mayhem in the middle and exaggeration in the analysis</description>
<link>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1415593.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:06:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Is the ICC&#39;s pitch-rating system fit for purpose? </title>
<description>Why is Brisbane 2022 below average, while Ahmedabad 2021 is not? Here&#39;s why using technology to assess pitches would help weed out many of the shortcomings of the current process</description>
<link>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1365110.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:16:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>BCCI files appeal with ICC over &#39;poor&#39; rating given to Indore Test pitch</title>
<description>A two-member panel will now conduct a review before announcing their verdict within 14 days</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:33:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India seem to have forgotten how they won in Australia</title>
<description>The marked tendency to produce result pitches shows they may have underestimated the visiting side</description>
<link>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1362906.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 02:08:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Rahul Dravid: Need to be realistic about batting in these challenging conditions</title>
<description>India coach says the importance of World Test Championship points has led to an increase in result-oriented pitches</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:27:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Indore pitch rated poor after third India vs Australia Test</title>
<description>Match referee Chris Broad noted how the fifth ball of the match threw up a puff of dust and kept deteriorating further</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:53:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What&#39;s the big deal with the Nagpur pitch?</title>
<description>Charges of pitch doctoring, and rebuttals to those charges, are dominating the discussion on the eve of the first Border-Gavaskar Test</description>
<link>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1357832.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:26:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>ICC rescinds demerit point for Rawalpindi pitch that hosted Pakistan-England Test</title>
<description>ICC&#39;s appeal panel reviewed match footage and concluded the pitch had &quot;several redeeming features&quot;</description>
<link>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1355361.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:30:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brisbane pitch earns &#39;below average&#39; rating from ICC</title>
<description>&quot;It was not an even contest between bat and ball,&quot; says Richie Richardson, the match referee for the Test</description>
<link>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1350476.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:48:15 GMT</pubDate>
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