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South African batsman Henrik Klaasen has criticized the Nassau County Cricket Ground’s pitch and outfield, saying that if the International Cricket Council (ICC) is looking for a market for T20 cricket in America, it will be very difficult to do so in such conditions. Conditions Batting on the drop pitches of this ground is very difficult. In the T20 World Cup, India successfully defended 119 runs while South Africa successfully defended 113 runs on this pitch.
Klaasen scored 46 off 44 balls against Bangladesh and his innings proved decisive in the end. “If you want to show the world and find a market here, I don’t think it’s possible to do that in these conditions,” Klaasen said after South Africa’s four-run win. It is a tough competition from a cricketing point of view. This has reduced the gap between the top teams and other teams.
The aggressive batsman said that batsmen don’t like to play on such pitches while bowlers like to play on such pitches. The ICC has already admitted that the pitches were not what they expected. Klaasen said, “To be honest, I think all the batsmen would want to get out of this position but the bowlers would prefer to stay here. But we played our part and our aim was to win all three matches here. “It was definitely harder to win than we thought.”
“It was very stressful for us here because the games became really close,” he said. None of the matches have been easy for us but still it has been good entertaining cricket. Any team can beat any team on this ground.” Klassen, who played in Major League Cricket last year, said, ‘I played in Dallas and North Carolina. The wicket there was better than this and it becomes a bit easier to spread the cricket in such conditions.