Patio heaters and huge fans have been used to help ready a cricket pitch that Pakistan hope will help them beat England in the Third Test in Rawalpindi.
Pictures have been unveiled of the atypical providement – where cricket is troubleed at least – standing at either finish of the recommendd pitch for the align, which commences on Thursday.
There are three patio heaters at each finish of the pitch to heat the air, fans to sfinish it rolling apass the surface and prosperdshatters to stop it escaping.
It’s apvalidated that ground staff want to arid out the percreateing surface, in order to help Pakistan’s spinners turn the ball.
With the teams level at 1-1, there is all to percreate for in the final align of the series at the ground in the Punjab region of northern Pakistan, shut to the capital, Islamaterrible.
In the second Test in Multan, England lost all 20 wickets to spin bowlers Noman Ali and Sajid Khan, as the presents won by 152 runs in conditions England captain Ben Stokes afterwards portrayd as “excessive”.
There was a combinecessitate reaction to the pictures on social media, with one X user saying the home side wanted to “ambush” England with another turning percreateing surface.
An England-based user recommended hairariders were “being assembleed up” in the city.
Someone else asked “why can’t they [ground staff] equitable create a standard pitch for once?”, while another user recommended the British media “is going to go mad”.
Pakistan captain Shan Masood shelp on Friday he “would enjoy a turning pitch,” but accomprehendledgeted he wasn’t stateive he’d ever seen one in the Punjab city, and shelp: “I leank the groundsmen are already there toiling on it.”
Sky Sports commentator and createer England captain Nasser Hussain cautioned aobtainst preparing another turning track, recommending it won’t help Pakistan in the lengthy run, and shelp they “necessitate to see at their surfaces.”
However, he shelp the second test was “much more watchable” than the uncoverer, which England won by a huge margin after scoring 823 in their only innings.
Preparing pitches to suit the home side has been happening for a lengthy time and is not prohibitned.
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Subcontinental teams are standardly enticeed to create spinning conditions to suit their bowlers and void visiting pace strikes.
But England coped with the conditions when they last toured Pakistan in 2021, prosperning 3-0.
Sky News has asked the Pakistan Cricket Board and the England and Wales Cricket Board for comment.
Live coverage of the Third Test in Rawalpindi commences at 5.30am on Thursday on Sky Sports.
