If you want to know what it means to miss out on crucial five points, ask Maharashtra team manager Riyaz Bhagwan
If you want to know what it means to miss out on crucial five points, ask Maharashtra team manager Riyaz Bhagwan. Maharashtra and Saurashtra were given two points each after a Vinoo Mankad U-19 West Zone 50-overs match at the Bandra Kurla Complex ground was abandoned yesterday.
"The conditions were wet and there was a little puddle near the bowling area. The outfield was also wet," match referee R Subramanian told MiD DAY.
However, Bhagwan was livid that the match was called off. He was heard saying: "It is not nature's problem.
It's the ground staff who is responsible. How is it possible that 33 yards were not wet and the remaining three yards were excessively wet? The curator was not thinking about how to conduct today's match, but was worried about games that will take place in the next few days."
BKC curator MS Rao refuted Bhagwan's claims. "There was incessant rain a night before the match. We had covered the pitch well, but I guess the new covers were not of good quality. We will change them soon.
"I have done my best to make play possible. We prepared an adjacent pitch but the match referee and umpires did not find it playable," he stated.
Mumbai Cricket Association's Hon Joint Secretary Lalchand Rajput said the match was rightly called off.
"It is not that the play didn't take place only at BKC. At MIG Cricket Club (Bandra) too, the match was called off. The ground staff did their best to have a match," said Rajput.
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