10 Drop-in Pitches Arrive in New York For the T20 World Cup: ICC – News18

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that the drop-in pitches  to be used at the upcoming T20 World Cup have arrived in New York.

The Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York will play host to as many as eight group matches at the showpiece event between June 3 and June 12.

Among the eight matches is the blockbuster clash between India and Pakistan on June 9.

“A total of 10 pitches arrived at the New York venue ahead of the first match at the ground between Sri Lanka and South Africa on June 3.

“We couldn’t be happier,” Adelaide Oval head curator Damian Hough was quoted as saying by the ICC.

“Everything is going to plan, they (the pitches) are in real good condition and all of our benchmarks and measures that we take along the way are exceeding expectations.”

“We hope we have got a good T20 pitch, that has good pace, good bounce and (provides) value for shots. You want the batters to be able to play shots all over the ground so that is our design and at the start our ambition was to produce pitches along those lines,” he added.

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Four of the 10 pitches will be prepared in the middle of the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium with the remaining six pitches to be laid at the neighbouring practice facilities.

20 semi-trailer trucks were used to transport the pitches from Florida to New York.

The venue can host 34,000 fans and is located at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County, east of Manhattan.

Nine of the 20 teams taking part in the T20 World Cup will play matches in New York including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Canada, Ireland, Bangladesh, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the USA, with the first match taking place on June 3 between 2014 champions Sri Lanka and South Africa.