{"id":11041,"date":"2019-01-02T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2019-01-02T07:32:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T07:32:35","slug":"after-perth-the-icc-also-gave-an-average-rating-to-melbourne-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/after-perth-the-icc-also-gave-an-average-rating-to-melbourne-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"After Perth, The ICC Also Gave An Average Rating To Melbourne Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>After Perth, The ICC Also Gave An Average Rating To Melbourne Pitch<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/melbourne-pitch-300x169.png\" alt=\"melbourne pitch\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were 271 matches at the <a class=\"expresscurate_contentTags\" href=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/tag\/melbourne-cricket-ground\/\">#Melbourne Cricket Ground<\/a> so far, out of which 249 resulted.<\/li>\n<li>In the last Test here, India defeated Australia by 137 runs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Melbourne:<\/strong> The <a class=\"expresscurate_contentTags\" href=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/tag\/international-cricket-council\/\">#International Cricket Council<\/a> (ICC) has given an average rating on the pitch of the Melbourne <a class=\"expresscurate_contentTags\" href=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/tag\/cricket\/\">#Cricket<\/a> Ground after the third Test between India and Australia. The ICC also gave average ratings to Perth&#8217;s pitch. The second match of the four-match series between India and Australia was held in Perth. Giving of the average rating means that the ICC will not give any demerit point to the Melbourne Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 demerit status lost at an international status:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>According to the ICC rules, if a stadium gets five demerit points during five years, then its international status is dropped.<\/li>\n<li>Boxing Day Test was held between Australia and England last year in Melbourne. The match was a draw. After this, the ICC had given three demerit\u00a0points to this pitch.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Sydney Morning Herald report, Melbourne&#8217;s current pitch is about 15 years old, but it will be used in the next season.<\/li>\n<li>Here are four new pitches to be prepared. However, he will take about three years to fully prepare, and by then the same pitch will be used.<\/li>\n<li>Many cricket critics, including Australian cricket coach Justin Langer, were surprised at the ICC decision when Perth&#8217;s pitch was given an average rating.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Perth, The ICC Also Gave An Average Rating To Melbourne Pitch There were 271 matches at the #Melbourne Cricket Ground so far, out of which 249 resulted. In the last Test here, India defeated Australia by 137 runs. Melbourne: The #International Cricket Council (ICC) has given an average rating on the pitch of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5244,"featured_media":11042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,1072,1606],"class_list":["post-11041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting-stories","tag-cricket","tag-international-cricket-council","tag-melbourne-cricket-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11044,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions\/11044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}