Anarchy reigns supreme once again ACA Barsapara Stadium Here during the India-South Africa second T20I on Sunday.
If a snake sliding across the field during India’s innings wasn’t enough, the worst-case scenario was when the stadium went into partial darkness during South Africa’s mammoth chase of 238, causing a second interruption in the match. was born.
immediately after the first ball of Deepak Chahri In the third over, when South Africa were trailing 5/2, play was halted for 18 minutes after one of the four floodlight towers went off.
All the players went back to the dressing room and it took about six minutes for the lights to slowly turn on one by one before play resumed.
Assam Cricket Association secretary Devjit Saikia, while attributing it to a ‘technical glitch’, told PTI, “We have three parties handling the power aspect – our own 25-member team, a third (outsourced) party and state power.” Department. It was probably a voltage problem, some technical fault.”
Saikia said the ACA has used generator sets to power the match and is not dependent on the power supply from the electricity department.
The media team also faced a similar problem before the match as there was no light for a few overs in the match as it took hours for the officials to spot the mistake.
Earlier during India’s innings it was the snake’s turn to stop the game for nearly five minutes in a rare sight during an international match.
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From a small unknown pit the snake came out of nowhere to scare Wayne Parnell in the additional covered area. It then slipped into square territory.
After this the groundsmen came and imprisoned him in the bucket.
During the last international match here, mismanagement of the venue made headlines when India-Sri Lanka’s first T20I in January 2020 was abandoned after water seeped into the pitch despite being given three-layer cover.
The ACA then cut a sorry figure when they brought hair dryers, steam irons, battery-powered fans and other equipment to dry the pitch but in vain.