Sunil Gavaskar hits out on 'pitch swapping' allegations by BCCI during WC, calls it 'pretty irrelevant'
NDTV Sports quoted Gavaskar writing in his column for Sportstar. ALSO READ: 'I want to see Rohit Sharma as captain..': Gautam Gambhir after reports of him shunning cricket's shortest format In the semi-final clash with New Zealand at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium, India won the match by 70 runs, where pacer Mohammed Shami bagged seven wickets on a pitch deemed helpful for spinners.
"Nothing in the playing conditions say that for the knockout games, a fresh pitch had to be used, so just because India's matches were played on previously used pitches didn't mean there was any hanky-panky. That was proven conclusively in the semifinals, where the allegation of a dry pitch to suit the Indian spinners was made, but more than 725 runs were scored, and a fast bowler took seven wickets for India," Gavaskar added.
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