Recently, Ravi Shastri spoke up about the issue of pollution affecting games. Delhi’s notorious smog had halted the play in the third Test between India and Sri Lanka, with several players wearing facemasks and two of them reportedly vomiting in the dressing room.
Recently, Ravi Shastri spoke up about the issue of pollution affecting games. Delhi’s notorious smog had halted the play in the third Test between India and Sri Lanka, with several players wearing facemasks and two of them reportedly vomiting in the dressing room.
Speaking to News 18, Team India coach Shastri admitted there was pollution in Delhi as he told the channel: “Either play or don't play. There was pollution. I think rules will change in the future. Just like you have a light meter, you might have pollution meter. And you might have to draw a line, if it grows above this, you don't play then. Just like when there's lightning. Let's face it, there was pollution. It's for the umpires, play or don't play.”
The second day's play was stopped twice on Sunday as Sri Lanka fast bowlers Suranga Lakmal and Lahiru Gamage walked off the field after the seasonal haze blanketed the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in the Indian capital. Several players wore facemasks and coach Nic Pothas said two of them vomited in the dressing-room.
Delhi's government had ordered schools to shut temporarily after pollution readings in some places peaked at 500, the most severe level on the government's air quality index that measures poisonous particles.
Asked if the International Cricket Council should come out with clear guidelines for such cases, Mathews had said: "It's up to the match referee to talk to the ICC. This was one of those unique occasions, we never had this kind of issues. There is match referee, there are two umpires and I'm sure they'd sit and talk to ICC."
India bowling coach Bharat Arun on the other hand had said that the match was "unnecessarily" halted, pointing to Virat Kohli's seven-and-half-hour innings of 243 during which the India captain did not feel uncomfortable.
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