[PICTURES] Novel ways to dry ground attempted in India!

[MenInG]

Ok after seeing this in India - I am beginning to think we arent that far off

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Even a hair dryer and steam iron couldn't dry the pitch in Guwahati for the 1st T20 between India and Sri Lanka <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDvSL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#INDvSL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/bXhT0AJFjk">pic.twitter.com/bXhT0AJFjk</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1213891164266532865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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[aloo paratha]

Lmaooo this was for real?

I thought it was just a joke.

 

[MenInG]

Lmaooo this was for real?

I thought it was just a joke.

When all else fails - Desi mentality demands ingenious action!

 

[Rana]

I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, guys want to give their fans a game and are ready to to whatever it takes!

 

[SensiblePakFan]

What is going through Kholi's mind right here?

 

[gazza619]

Credit to ground staff for thinking out of the box but it does make you think that BCCI is the richest board in the world and surely there must be modern means to get the pitch dry...

 

[Oneking]

Small space heater or heat guns would have been more effective

 

[BreadPakoda]

How can a hair drier dry a pitch? Innovative but not practical.

BCCI will not spare this. The local board has blown (no pun intended) away this opportunity.

 

[MenInG]

Pakistanis have their own ways.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Why not use a heater?

I was told me that the heater will not be able to give focused heat and other parts of the pitch may become affected.

 

[Varun]

How can a hair drier dry a pitch? Innovative but not practical.

BCCI will not spare this. The local board has blown (no pun intended) away this opportunity.

Why, what will happen to them?

 

[SensiblePakFan]

They used a freakin iron to dry a cricket pitch. Where's the money for a new set of covers lol

 

[Saj]

I didn't see the action, or lack of action today.

Did the covers not do the job?

 

[jnaveen1980]

When i repaired my ipad i used heat gun to clean the glue. Heat gun goes over 1200 dgrees. Hair dryer heat is negligible. It is meant for hair. Whenever our carpet gets wet we use powerful fan. Nothing is better than sun.

 

[Mean&Green]

This keeps getting funnier and funnier oh my lord this is crazy a straight vacuum than a pink cheap low quality hair dryer which is probably some ground staffs wives as well by the looks of it and than an iron these mans brought an istari to dry out a damped 22 yard pitch this is just jokes

 

[pakistanisgreat]

passion as its best!!!

 

[tyron_woodley]

use a bowdry for removing surface wetness. ***?

 

[cricketjoshila]

I didn't see the action, or lack of action today.

Did the covers not do the job?

The water seeped in while removing the covers. A blunder by the groundsmen that resulted in abandonment.

 

[The cricket enthusiast]

The water seeped in while removing the covers. A blunder by the groundsmen that resulted in abandonment.

doesn't it looks farce being the richest cricket Board ?
pathetic

 

[cricketjoshila]

doesn't it looks farce being the richest cricket Board ?
pathetic

Mistakes happen everywhere. Same thing happened at the 2003 CWC final too.

 

[MenInG]

doesn't it looks farce being the richest cricket Board ?
pathetic

Its how we are. Ground staff thought it was the best way to get things going.

 

[Big Mac]

They used a freakin iron to dry a cricket pitch. Where's the money for a new set of covers lol

Nah the iron is how they produce flat pitches for ODIs

 

[Itachi]

I didn't see the action, or lack of action today.

Did the covers not do the job?

These are inexperienced groundsman according to reports. New staffs have come in who lacked the required knowledge.

 

[JattMaula]

These are inexperienced groundsman according to reports. New staffs have come in who lacked the required knowledge.

Who's job is training them? No excuse for incompetence.

 

[jnaveen1980]

These are inexperienced groundsman according to reports. New staffs have come in who lacked the required knowledge.

Probably they made desperate attempts to get it going as they realized their folly of allowing water to seep through. As Gauti said he has never seen at any level. This is a situation they were unprepared for. If it were outfield they wouldn't do this much. Once the pitch gets deeply wet then it is challenging to get it dried quickly. Ideally they should have called off as soon as they saw the patch on the 22 yard strip.

 

[Saj]

These are inexperienced groundsman according to reports. New staffs have come in who lacked the required knowledge.

Poor excuse and poor planning then.

This was an international match, not an over 50s match in the local park.

 

[cricketjoshila]

These are inexperienced groundsman according to reports. New staffs have come in who lacked the required knowledge.

The ground staff from the old Guwahati stadium were not transferred here?

 

[ahmedzee]

I remeber in 1996 world cup, BCCI kept complaining to ICC about PCB's lack of means to dry the ground after rain which led to a game called off. After this, the PPP govt was approached with a solution and they came up in using helicopter to remove excess water from the outfield ...unbelievably it was effective.

 

[JaDed]

I remeber in 1996 world cup, BCCI kept complaining to ICC about PCB's lack of means to dry the ground after rain which led to a game called off. After this, the PPP govt was approached with a solution and they came up in using helicopter to remove excess water from the outfield ...unbelievably it was effective.

Can you provide link for India’s complaints , helicopter was used in final i think and before that in feb of that year same thing was done in Patna India already.. just letting you know..for Kenya vs Zim

 

[Mirpur express]

That pic will be a meme for a long time..& I don’t think anyone will ever come up with a better (cringe) way of trying to dry a pitch FOR an international match&#55357;&#56834;&#55357;&#56834;&#55357;&#56834;

 

[ahmedzee]

Can you provide link for India’s complaints , helicopter was used in final i think and before that in feb of that year same thing was done in Patna India already.. just letting you know..for Kenya vs Zim

Don't think I will spend time finding links from 1996. You can do so at your own time. I remember vividly seeing a news like that and it was during the league stage, not final. My whole point was that sometimes unconventional methods are effective.

 

[leonidas_alexandar]

While the groundsmen may have made an honest mistake - blame must be placed - as this is an internationally televised cricket match and it simply is not a good look at all for the BCCI.

 

[Itachi]

The ground staff from the old Guwahati stadium were not transferred here?

Not sure about ground stuff but according to news, the officials were new. They will be held more responsible as the groundsman will be under them.

 

[Itachi]

While the groundsmen may have made an honest mistake - blame must be placed - as this is an internationally televised cricket match and it simply is not a good look at all for the BCCI.

It was incompetence and should be punished.

 

[cricketjoshila]

While the groundsmen may have made an honest mistake - blame must be placed - as this is an internationally televised cricket match and it simply is not a good look at all for the BCCI.

Mistake? This is a blunder.

The ground was ready by 8.30 to start the game. If not for those patches.

Money lost. Fans troubled and loss of face for this farcial act.

 

[daytrader]

India the Supa Powa in 2020

Seriously though what is BCCI doing with all its money