Sri Lanka Cricket CEO Ashley de Silva: “[Indika] is not a curator. He was only the assistant manager”
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have insisted that the pitch curator allegedly involved in the pitch-fixing claims made by an Al Jazeera documentary is not actually a curator.
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The Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) has made it clear that Pune curator Pandurang Salgaoncar has only been suspended.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has “dismissed” Pandurang Salgaoncar, the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) curator, for “malpractice”.
Warnaweera has been suspended for three years by the ICC
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended former Galle curator Jayananda Warnaweera for three years after he failed to co-operate with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in an ongoing investigation.
It is understood that Warnaweera is under investigation by the ICC’s ACU.
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Galle chief curator Jayananda Warnaweera has been banned from all cricket activities for two years by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) after he did not turn up for two interviews with the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU).
Shastri (pictured above) allegedly told Naik “great wicket” in a sarcastic tone
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Wankhede Stadium curator Sudhir Naik has lodged a complaint with the Mumbai Cricket Association after claiming that India team director Ravi Shastri and bowling coach B Arun both launched a verbal tirade against him.
“We won’t be using that particular pitch for a long time”
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Sydney Cricket Ground’s Pitch No.7 will be retired indefinitely since it was the scene where Australian batsman Phillip Hughes suffered the fatal blow to the side of the neck that led to his death.
“Looking at the surface, it has looked like a decent bat-first wicket”
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In preparation for the first Test between England and India, Nottingham curator Steve Birks has announced that the pitch at Trent Bridge currently has eight to nine millimetres of grass on it in order to ensure teams aren’t “bowled out for 180”.
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“I think we’ll play the spinner”
Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon is likely to retain his spot in the Ashes squad for third Test in Perth, despite conditions there being highly pace-friendly.
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“From our end it’s going to take us time to get it exactly where we want it”
Damien Hough, who is the Adelaide Oval curator, has announced that he and his groundstaff are simply “trying to produce a typical Adelaide Oval pitch”, whereby it will be a batsman’s dream and spin later on into the match.