‘I was designed to look like a villain’: Oval Curator, who spit with Gautam Gambhir, speaks after the Indo-England Test. Cricket news
While most of the pitch curator is fiercely protective of the main class on a cricket ground, Oval’s chief curator Lee Fortis, takes that passion to almost holy level.A week can often change perceptions in both cricket and life. A few days after his warm exchange with India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir – an incident that depicted him as a villain among Indian players and fans – Fortis shared a festive toast with his dedicated ground staff, marking the thrilling conclusion of the Test match at the Oval.
“Well, I was never a villain; I was designed to look like one. Hope you all enjoy the spectacle. The atmosphere was like the IPL, and it was a great game,” Fortis told the news agency PTI after five thrilling days of cricket at the Oval.With both batsmen and bowlers getting adequate assistance from the pitch, it is appropriate to call Oval’s Square a perfect place for Test cricket. It was a batting feast on four days, which was dominated by Root and Harry Brook, England scored a malignant 374 runs. However, just 35 runs away from a five -day win with England, Indian Pacer Mohammad Siraj cherished some extraordinary. Using the old ball, they excluded it in the air and from the pitch, helping India to win a dramatic, series-tier win. However, the situation of the storm helped him, on that day the skill of Siraj was remarkable – exploiting the same pitch where the batting looked so comfortable a day earlier.In the heat of an intensive exchange, Gambhir called Sirj “just a groundman”, as stated in words before the test. The dispute stems from an unusual instruction to keep a distance of 2.5 meters from the pitch, an order that visitors were found to be unwanted.But Fortis chose that controversy, describing Gambhir as a serious “tatty” beyond just a big match.Fortis, who has been named the ECB’s Curator of the Year for three consecutive years, is intensely emotional about his craft.Soon after Siraj’s vital wicket, Fortis returned to the main class, preparing a hundred, which has been going to the site since 9 August.
