Ranji Trophy: J&K were starring the 2nd innings with 209 for 1 successful their 2nd innings and a triumph volition guarantee they decorativeness arsenic leaders of Group A. (PTI)
Was determination transportation tampering done by the hosts Baroda successful their ongoing Ranji Trophy crippled against Jammu & Kashmir? The visitors J&K surely made an authoritative ailment with the lucifer referee, and the allegation was firmly denied by Baroda, who said it was owed to “dampness successful pitch”.
It each happened astatine the commencement of time 3 erstwhile the commencement was delayed owed to this issue. J&K’s manager Ajay Sharma felt the colour of the transportation had changed and his inference was the transportation had been tampered with. Sharma brought up the contented archetypal with the umpires Pashchim Pathak and Ravi Teja and besides with the lucifer referee Arjan Kripal Singh.
J&K were starring the 2nd innings with 209 for 1 successful their 2nd innings and a triumph volition guarantee they decorativeness arsenic leaders of Group A.
The Baroda Cricket Association authoritative denied they tampered with the pitch. “The allegations made by the J&K manager are baseless. The outfield was bedewed and owed to wintertime determination was moisture connected the transportation and adjacent the outfield was wet. The umpire excessively felt the same. Anyone who has played cricket volition recognize that during wintertime determination is moisture connected the transportation and sometimes the outfield takes clip to dry. Sometimes matches are delayed but calling it arsenic pitch-fixed and blaming the relation for this, we volition not judge these allegations. We volition beryllium approaching the BCCI for remarks made by the coach.”
The umpires and lucifer referee took their clip and aft a batch of discussions the crippled resumed astatine 10:55 am.
Hosts Baroda are successful a dicey spot successful the points table acknowledgment to Mumbai who won their crippled with a bonus constituent by defeating Meghalaya. Baroda needs to bushed J&K to suffice for the knock-out stage.
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