'Below-par' Kanpur venue out
INDIA'S cricket board has moved a scheduled Test match in 2013 from Kanpur to Hyderabad because of pressure from Australian officials.
The board told the media on Friday that Australia would play a four-Test series in India in February and March in the cities of Delhi, Mohali, Hyderabad and Chennai.
''The change was necessitated because the ongoing construction activity at the Green Park, Kanpur, would not have been completed in time for the Test,'' the board's secretary, Sanjay Jagdale, said.
A recent inspection by Cricket Australia found the Kanpur venue to be below-par, and hotel amenities have also failed to satisfy the standards of CA and the Australian Cricketers' Association.
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The association's chief, Paul Marsh, said earlier this week that neither the association nor Cricket Australia were keen on the Kanpur venue.
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