{"id":2111,"date":"2018-12-22T07:41:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T07:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2018-12-22T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T07:41:13","slug":"perth-pitch-receives-average-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"Perth pitch receives &#8216;average&#8217; rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dubai, <\/strong>The International Cricket Council (ICC) has rated the pitch for the second Test between India and Australia at Perth as &#8220;average&#8221;, which is the lowest pass mark provided by the ICC when they rate the pitch and outfield of Test grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Australia had pulled off a stunning 141-run win to square the four-Test series but the rating by ICC match referee Ranjan Madugalle could be related to the uneven bounce that resulted in a couple of nasty blows, according to a Cricket Australia (CA) statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>The ICC introduced a disciplinary system at the start of the year in a bid to improve the standard of pitches around the world and can provide five ratings &#8212; very good, good, average, below average and poor &#8212; when rating Test venues.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s ODI skipper Aaron Finch retired hurt after his right glove was struck by a Mohammed Shami delivery. He was cleared of any serious damage and returned to the crease the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Indian tailenders seemed uncomfortable dealing with the short-pitched deliveries on the WACA pitch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai, The International Cricket Council (ICC) has rated the pitch for the second Test between India and Australia at Perth as &#8220;average&#8221;, which is the lowest pass mark provided by the ICC when they rate the pitch and outfield of Test grounds. Australia had pulled off a stunning 141-run win to square the four-Test series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}