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"It is premature and unfair to pre-empt what the match
referee and Dave Richardson would conclude and it would be
unfair to say now whether the Kotla pitch is unfit," Lorgat
said.
"It is there in the guidelines and it is between
Madugalle and match referee Alan Hurst to go into it. I don't
want to say anything more about it now," he said.
Lorgat said the ICC had not given any report on the
unsuitability of the Kotla pitch. It had only sent a routine
report on the inspection done prior to the preparations of the
2011 World Cup in the sub-continent.
"It is too early to conclude. You must wait for the
process to take its course. It will take five days for the
match referee and the chief referee to discuss the issue and
then BCCI would be given a notice to respond in 14 days," he
said.
"Then it depends on Madugalle to prepare the final report
which would take about 10 to 14 days. So, it would be fair to
say that it would take about a month's time to complete the
entire process. But his is not the final word on the time
schedule for the process," he added. PTI