IND vs NZ: This is a used wicket… Kane Williamson has now broken his silence on the Wankhede Stadium controversy, reveals

There has been a lot of controversy regarding the stadium ahead of the first semi-final match of the 2023 ODI World Cup between India and New Zealand. It was said that BCCI had changed the playing field. Now Kane Williamson has also given a statement about this matter.

There was a debate all day long over the provision of the stadium used in the semi-final of the 2023 ODI World Cup to the ICC. New Zealand captain Kane Williamson admitted the pitch was actually very good. Reports claimed that the BCCI, to help its players, changed the new pitch scheduled for the final match from the pitch on which two matches had already been played.

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In the end, it was a dry and slow pitch with three batsmen – Virat Kohli (117), India’s Shreyas Iyer (105) and New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell (134) scoring centuries and India’s Mohammed Shami taking seven wickets. Williamson admitted it was a good surface despite having been used earlier in the match.

“Indeed, it was a pre-owned wicket, however it’s really a generally excellent surface as we’ve seen,” he said in the post-match public interview on Wednesday. I mean, they took full advantage of that in the first half of the game. I think circumstances change when the lights go out and things change, and that’s what we’ve seen throughout this competition. It’s okay, it’s what you’d expect and he played really well.

Although Williamson said the semi-final loss was disappointing, he was proud of his team as they battled well throughout the seven-week tournament. “So yeah, I mean it’s disappointing to get to this level and not progress, but at the same time you look at seven weeks instead of a few little moments and we lost to a better team,” Williamson said.

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Allow us to let you know that India won the throw and chose to bat first. In such a situation, Rohit’s army scored 397 runs for 4 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs and gave a huge target of 398 runs to the Kiwi team. In response, New Zealand batted well and kept fighting until the end. But you can’t win. New Zealand were all out after scoring 327 runs in 48.5 overs and lost the match by 70 runs.