{"id":295649,"date":"2023-10-09T10:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T10:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=295649"},"modified":"2023-10-09T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T10:04:05","slug":"jos-buttler-slams-poor-dharamshala-outfield-amid-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/%d1%81ricket\/jos-buttler-slams-poor-dharamshala-outfield-amid-safety-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos Buttler slams &apos;poor&apos;\u00a0Dharamshala outfield amid safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jos Buttler slams &#8216;poor&#8217;\u00a0Dharamshala outfield amid safety concerns ahead of\u00a0 Bangladesh clash&#8230; as England captain warns surface could affect &#8216;integrity&#8217; of crucial World Cup fixture<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ICC have been forced to defend the outfield in\u00a0Dharamshala<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jos Buttler disagrees with the ICC&#8217;s &#8216;average&#8217; rating of the surface<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>England must beat Bangladesh after being thrashed by New Zealand\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jos Buttler has described Dharamshala\u2019s sandy outfield as \u2018poor\u2019 on the eve of his side\u2019s crucial World Cup game against Bangladesh, and questioned whether it will affect the \u2018integrity\u2019 of a match England must win after their thrashing by New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>ICC officials rated the outfield \u2018average\u2019 after Saturday\u2019s match here between Bangladesh and Afghanistan \u2013 a verdict with which Buttler and his team plainly disagree.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he had any concerns about a surface that has been treated with sand after floods and a fungal infestation, Buttler replied: \u2018Yeah, a few. I think it\u2019s poor. Any time you\u2019re talking about being careful diving, it goes against everything you want to be as a team.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You want to dive through a row of houses to save a run. But we won\u2019t use it as an excuse. We\u2019ll adapt to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But, certainly, if you feel like you\u2019re having to hold yourself back, it\u2019s not a place you want to be as a team, or as a player, in a World Cup match.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/09\/76328483-0-image-a-1_1696840230162.jpg\" height=\"408\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jos Buttler has questioned whether the outfield in Dharamshala may affect the outcome of England&#8217;s crucial game against Bangladesh on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/09\/76328531-0-image-a-2_1696840240505.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The ICC rated the outfield as &#8216;average&#8217; after Saturday\u2019s match between Afghanistan and Pakistan at the\u00a0Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association stadium<\/p>\n<p>After making his comments in the official pre-match ICC press conference, Buttler was probed further by the BBC, who asked whether he was comfortable with the game going ahead.<\/p>\n<p>He replied: \u2018The powers that be are comfortable, so\u2026 the only thing I would question is if you are telling players not to dive and stuff, does that question the integrity of the game, really, because of what you want to be able to do? The worst-case scenario is something bad happens, but fingers that doesn\u2019t happen for both teams.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>English cricket still winces at the memory of fast bowler Simon Jones\u2019s career-ending knee injury on a sandy surface at Brisbane\u2019s Gabba at the start of the 2002-03 Ashes, while Afghanistan\u2019s Mujeeb Ur Rahman was lucky to escape without a serious injury when he jarred his knee in the outfield here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott, the former England batsman, to message his contacts in the England dressing-room, warning them what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, the ICC \u2013 led by match referee Javagal Srinath, the former Indian fast bowler \u2013 declared the outfield \u2018average\u2019. Andy Pycroft, the Zimbabwean who refereed the Afghanistan-Bangladesh game, is understood to have been less impressed by conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Buttler added: \u2018Injuries can happen at any time and on any surface. But I think it\u2019s definitely one where you\u2019re going to have to be a little bit careful, which isn\u2019t what you want to be doing when you\u2019re playing for your country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It\u2019s not as good as it could be or should be. We won\u2019t be using it as an excuse, we\u2019ll just have to be a bit smart.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/09\/76328527-0-image-a-3_1696840253803.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The outfield in Dharamshala came under scrutiny after\u00a0Mujeeb ur Rahman jammed his knee in the surface during Afghanistan&#8217;s game against Bangladesh\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/09\/76328491-0-image-a-4_1696840445715.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>England must bounce back against Bangladesh following a thrashing at the hands of New Zealand in the opening fixture of the World Cup<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stokes would have missed the game even before the distraction of the outfield, but batted against the spinners in the nets this morning and looked slightly more free than he had on Sunday as he continues to recover from a hip injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>England are hoping he will be fit in time for Sunday\u2019s game against Afghanistan in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>First, though, they must beat Bangladesh, and are set to add an extra fast bowler or two to the team who lost to New Zealand. Both Reece Topley and Gus Atkinson are waiting in the wings, while Mark Wood could be given the game off.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We know we didn\u2019t play as well as we can in the last game and we\u2019re desperate to put that right, both individually and as a team,\u2019 said Buttler. \u2018There\u2019s plenty of hunger in the group and we\u2019re excited to get back on the field.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Whether the field will reciprocate the enthusiasm is another matter.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12609857\/Jos-Buttler-England-Dharamshala-Bangladesh-outfield.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos Buttler slams &#8216;poor&#8217;\u00a0Dharamshala outfield amid safety concerns ahead of\u00a0 Bangladesh clash&#8230; as England captain warns surface could affect &#8216;integrity&#8217; <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jos Buttler slams &amp;apos;poor&amp;apos;\u00a0Dharamshala outfield amid safety concerns - Sportstons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/\u0441ricket\/jos-buttler-slams-poor-dharamshala-outfield-amid-safety-concerns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jos Buttler slams &amp;apos;poor&amp;apos;\u00a0Dharamshala outfield amid safety concerns - Sportstons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jos Buttler slams &#8216;poor&#8217;\u00a0Dharamshala outfield amid safety concerns ahead of\u00a0 Bangladesh clash&#8230; 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