The pitches installed at New York’s Nassau County Cricket Stadium for the ICC T20 World Cup make the mega event a nightmare for batsmen.
The batting team has struggled in the six matches played here so far, and despite the ICC declaring the stadium’s pitch unsuitable, the match went ahead.
The US, which hosted the tournament for the first time, failed to attract fans to the match as poor quality pitches hurt T20 audiences, depriving fans of witnessing the limit.
We witnessed only 74 boundaries and 41 sixes in the first six T20s. In contrast, teams playing in the West Indies found more comfortable limits, scoring more than 200 or 180.
On the other hand, no team has been able to score 150 at Nassau County Stadium.
Most teams played in 6 games in New York:
The first match between Sri Lanka and South Africa where the Sri Lankan team managed to score only 77 runs in only 19.1 overs while the African team reached their target in 16.2 overs with the loss of 4 wickets.
The second match was played between India and Ireland, in 16 overs, Ireland scored 96 out and India reached their target by losing 2 wickets.
The third match between South Africa and the Netherlands where the Orange Shorts managed to score 103 at the end of 20 overs and in the chase, the South African batting team also struggled to reach the target in the 19th over.
The fourth match was a traditional match between Pakistan and India and the match was lost due to bad weather and pitch. The first match started late due to rain and as a result, India’s long battery collapsed, scoring 119 runs in 19 overs, the Pakistani team also failed to chase the target and managed to score 113 runs with the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs, losing in 6 overs.
The fifth match was played at the venue between South Africa and Bangladesh and the result was slightly different; The counting game appeared. The African team batted first and scored 113 runs in the allotted 20 overs and in the chase, Bengal Tigers also struggled, managed to score 109 runs in 20 overs and won the match by 4 runs.
The sixth match was against Canada for the Pakistan team, and here again it looked like a bad signing. Likewise, goal fielding proved to be an uphill climb as the national team struggled to score just 107 runs in the 18th over.
