IANS Exclusive: Paul Taylor said, ‘Hybrid Pitches in Dharamshala Stadium has been Installed’
IANS Exclusive: While answering the question that where all in India Hybrid Pitches are Installed, Former England Test cricketer Paul Taylor answered, “We’ve installed eight hybrid pitches at HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala: four at the main site and two in each practice area. These pitches were used for practice during two recent IPL games. Feedback was positive, with players noting more pace and bounce. Indian players did not notice they were hybrid pitches, which is a good sign. A few English players observed some visible fibers and bare spots from a previous game. Additionally, we've recently installed a pitch at the Ahmedabad academy ground, but it hasn’t been used yet due to the monsoon. We have more installations planned in the HPCA area and interest from state associations nationwide, with hopes to expand to major centers in the coming months.”
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00:00So we've installed eight pitches at the HPCA stadium in in Dharamshala, there's
00:05four on the main stadium site and then there's two each on each of the two
00:08practice areas. The pitches on the main stadium were used for practice for the
00:14two IPL games that were recently played there for range hitting and for
00:19bowl throughs and the feedback initially was been very very good. There was more
00:24pace, more bounce. The Indian players who used them didn't appreciate that they
00:28were hybrid pitches which is a good thing. A couple of the English
00:32players did notice because there were a couple of bare areas from a previous
00:36game that hadn't fully recovered and there were a few fibres that they could
00:40see. So Jonny Bairstow, Sam and Tom Curran, Liam Livingstone, they were playing in
00:44the different games there. They noticed it was a hybrid but the Indian players
00:49didn't. So that's our first installation. Mr. Arun Dumal, he supported that
00:55initiative with us and he actually had a bat on one of the pitches
00:59during the press launch that we did there and he was
01:03supposed to be there for about 10 minutes but he actually batted for about
01:06an hour so he was obviously enjoying himself. We've also installed a
01:11pitch on the academy ground at the the main stadium in Ahmedabad in Matera and
01:17that was installed more recently. It's not been used yet because obviously it's
01:22been monsoon season and there's no cricket being played so we're looking
01:25forward to see the first use of that one. We've got other installations planned in
01:30the HPCA area which will take place over the next few weeks and we've got lots of
01:35interest from around the country from the state associations that we've met
01:40with. So there's a number of proposals on the table out there and we're hoping to
01:45install in more sort of major centres over the next few months.
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