IPL 2024: Now Sourav Ganguly appeals BCCI to save bowlers, says ‘They are being carted all over..’

Citing nary assistance for the batters from the level pitches, erstwhile Board of Control for Cricket successful India main and erstwhile Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly has expressed his concerns.

"Not casual for the bowlers. They are being carted each over, and that's 1 country that needs to beryllium looked astatine successful the future, the equilibrium betwixt bat and ball," Hindustan Times quoted Ganguly arsenic saying.

ALSO READ: Sunil Gavaskar says bowlers are suffering amid IPL 2024, asks BCCI to 'increase the size of the boundary'

On 26 April, the batters of Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings smashed 42 sixes astatine the Eden Gardens successful Kolkata. During the match, KKR batters deed 8 sixes successful the archetypal innings, portion PBKS recorded 24 maximums successful the second.

Before this, the fig of sixes was 28, some during the existent play of IPL.

Following the lucifer betwixt KKR and PBKS, Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took to X. He wrote a satirical post: “Save the bowlers, idiosyncratic plsss (please)."

A week ago, erstwhile Indian cricketer and legendary subordinate Sunil Gavaskar to suggested BCCI to marque immoderate changes successful its regularisation to prevention bowlers.

According to him, the bound ropes tin beryllium pushed a small much back, particularly astatine smaller venues, pointing astatine the spread betwixt the obstruction and the advertisement committee wherever where the stands begin.

“I wouldn't suggest immoderate changes to a cricket bat due to the fact that they are each wrong regulations, but I person been saying this for a agelong time, summation the size of the bound astatine each ground. Look astatine this crushed today, determination is capable abstraction to instrumentality it backmost a small much by a mates of metres. It tin often beryllium to beryllium the quality betwixt a drawback and a sixer. You tin propulsion that LED oregon advertisement boards adjacent further truthful that the bound enactment tin spell backmost by 2-3 metres and that volition marque a difference. Otherwise, the bowlers are the lone ones who volition suffer," HT quoted Gavaskar arsenic saying portion speaking to chap India fable Anjum Chopra.

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Published: 27 Apr 2024, 07:01 PM IST