ICC Cricket World Cup 2019: Sri Lanka Files Complaints to ICC About Partial Behaviour

Team Sri Lanka filed an official complaint to the ICC against unfair pitches and poor training facilities provided to them at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Sri Lanka registered the complaint against green pitches made for them at the Cardiff and Bristol for them whereas the pitches were brown and favorable for high scoring.

According to Cricbuzz, Sri Lanka team manager Ashantha de Mel at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 wrote to ICC, “What we have found out is that for and the four matches we have played so far at Cardiff and Bristol, the ICC has prepared a green pitch, and at the same venues where the other countries have played the pitches are brown and favorable for high scoring.”

Mel continued that ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 hasn’t been fair to all the 10 teams. He said, “This is a World Cup where the top ten countries are taking part and I feel that all the participants should be treated equally.”

Mel revealed that ICC is preparing a different pitch for different countries at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 and not treating every team equally. He said, “The pitch being prepared for our match against Australia on Saturday here at The Oval is green. It is not sour grapes that we are complaining but it is very unfair on the part of the ICC that they prepare one type of wicket for certain teams and another type for others.”

The Sri Lankan team was also unsatisfied with the practice facilities provided to them at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. The team complaint about less number of practice pitches to them and also no swimming pool was provided to them in their hotels.

“Even the practice facilities provided at Cardiff were unsatisfactory,” de Mel said during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. “Instead of three nets, they gave us only two and the hotel we were put up at Bristol did not have a swimming pool, which is very essential for every team for the fast bowlers especially to relax their muscles after practice. The hotels that Pakistan and Bangladesh were put up at Bristol had swimming pools.”

Mel revealed that he wrote a letter to the ICC but they did not reply to them. He said, “We wrote to the ICC listing all these shortcomings four days ago but so far we have not had any response from them. We will continue to write to them until we get a reply.”

Mel, later on, suggested that “We are not expecting every wicket should be white-top. We are asking for a fair wicket. You know, you have 50-50 wickets, that’s what we all want and what all the spectators want,”