DDCA panel quited

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday split its grounds and pitches committee with immediate result following the abandonment of the fifth and final India-Sri Lanka ODI at the Kotla.

Several hours later, in a related improvement, all members of the grounds and pitches committee of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) — chairman Chetan Chauhan, convenor Sunil Dev and curator Vijay Bahadur Mishra — resigned owning moral task for the pitch failure.

“At a meeting of senior officials of the DDCA, the chairman and members of the grounds and pitches committee of the DDCA, including the keeper, resigned owing moral task after the rejection of the India-Sri Lanka ODI,” DDCA secretary S. P. Bansal said in his speech.

Previously, a statement issued by BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan said: “The BCCI has disbanded its grounds and pitches committee with immediate effect,”
The decision to disband the five-member BCCI committee, headed by Daljit Singh, came hours after the final one-dayer was called off because of a unsafe pitch.
The game was discarded after Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara refused to play on a treacherous pitch.

The visitors were faltered at 83 for five when Thilina Kandamby complained to the on-field umpires about the form of the pitch.