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Think this has been discussed before. I have no problem with a home team preparing a pitch that suits their bowlers (or batters), but I do think that a strip should be prepared in the same way from one end to the other. So no, you cant scalp one spot, and leave the grass long at another because that's where your bowlers bowl, or where a particular batsman is weaker.
There will be a little natural variation anyway, and the pitch will wear over 5 days as the game progresses. You shouldn't be able to do different things to different parts of the same strip.
That’s absolutely ridiculous but as mentioned by Dunc the BCCI are pretty much allowed to do whatever they want….
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