Extreme heat, unusual weather, and a Bollywood film: These factors combined to make life difficult for England’s Leicestershire cricket club, which is now facing relegation from the County Championship’s Division One after it was docked 27 points for the poor state of its playing surface.
How a Bollywood film comes into play
In his statement to the England and Wales Cricket Board’s regulator, the groundsman said, “There was a lot of circumstances leading up to the game that were just out of my control, such as the weather was 35 degrees (Celsius, 95 Fahrenheit) and we had an unscheduled Bollywood filming event four days before. An elegant attacking batter, Ganguly scored more than 18,000 runs across formats. The film on his life will hit the screens on May 14, 2027.
Because of that, he could not work on the pitch properly, he argued that. Because of that, the moisture readings were below expected, despite heavy watering to compensate for eight continuous hours of exposure to a blazing sun, lewin said that. Grace Road was being used as a location for the shoot of Dada, the upcoming biopic of former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly . Leicestershire’s head groundsman, Callum Lewin, blamed the shoot for being one of the reasons why the pitch was unplayable. I wasn’t allowed to work on the pitch. I wasn’t allowed to cover it or anything. However, the ECB regulator did not view this as a valid excuse. He is regarded as one of India’s greatest white-ball batters and an inspirational captain.
“Risk management should have envisaged the need to incorporate protection of the pitch during the Bollywood event,” the regulator wrote.
The film, which stars Rajkummar Rao in the lead role, was being filmed at the ground, reportedly just four days before the match in question began.
