Stung by the fiasco at the Ferozshah Kotla which led to the abandonment of the fifth and final India-Sri Lanka ODI, the Cricket Board on Sunday disbanded its Grounds and Pitches Committee with immediate effect.
Kasturirangan, who has not been keeping good health, sent his resignation to the Board about a month back.
The entire pitch and ground committee of the Delhi and District Cricket Administration resigned on Sunday owning moral responsibility for the pitch fiasco that led to the abandonment of the fifth and final One-Day International between India and Sri Lanka. Chairman of the committee Chetan Chauhan, convener Sunil Dev and curator Vijay Bahadur Mishra were among those who resigned after a meeting of top DDCA functionaries.
The other members of the committee are Daljit Singh, Dheeraj Parsana, Anand Shukla and Prabir Mukherjee.
Ahead of the final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, GCA curators said they will prepare the pitch as they normally do this season.
Mohammed Shami will be needed on a dry Motera surface, which might be conducive for reverse swing.
Curator Daljit Singh has retired a happy man after 22 years of service to Indian cricket. The groundstaff are no longer seen as gardeners and are getting due respect, a change that pleases him the most.
A curator falling to the lure of corrupt money doesn't come as a surprise to former Board of Control for Cricket in India pitch committee chairman Venkat Sundaram, who says "underpaid groundsmen" are vulnerable to such approaches.
After the low-scoring match in Delhi, the fans can look forward to a run feast in the fourth cricket One-dayer between India and Australia in Mohali with the pitch curator predicting that the two teams' combined score could be in excess of 550.
BCCI pitches committee chairman Daljit Singh says every effort is being made to ensure that fair pitches are dished out for any level of cricket played in the country.
India's dismissal for a mere 76 runs in the second Test in Ahmedabad on Thursday may have been blamed on the pitch, but the chairman of BCCI's Ground and Pitch Committee insists there is no devil in the 22-yard strip.
The suspense over Delhi hosting the sixth and final one-dayer against Pakistan continued on Monday.
The BCCI Ground and Pitch Committee chairman said the condition of the out field and pitch has improved a lot.
The Green Park Cricket Stadium in Kanpur is slated to host the first Test between India and South Africa next month.
Former India medium pacer Debashish Mohanty of Orissa and ex-stumper M S K Prasad of Andhra have found a place in the Board of Control for Cricket in India's nine-member technical committee, headed by former captain Anil Kumble.
The pitch at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) has attracted a lot of attention.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly began his new innings as Cricket Association of Bengal president on Thursday with a pledge to make Eden Gardens the best place within three months time.
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