Test Kitchen Cape Town 2024-06-28 Test Kitchen Cape Town - Last update images today Test Kitchen Cape Town Joey Ortiz Homers And Bryse Wilson Pitches 6 Scoreless Innings As Brewers Defeat Rangers 3-1 The defining feature of the pitches at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, Trinidad during the group stages of the T20 World Cup was variable bounce. Some balls spat up from a good length, while others skidded through low - perhaps most notably, the pea-roller which accounted for Azmatullah Omarzai against Papua New Guinea.The square was relaid before the World Cup and preparations were hit by rain in the build-up to the opening game at the venue, West Indies' win over New Zealand. New Zealand were not happy with the quality of training pitches on offer, and cut their session an hour short on the eve of the match. "It was deemed not really acceptable," Gary Stead, their coach, said.Samuel Badree, who has commentated on dozens of games at the Brian Lara Academy, believes that the variable bounce owes to the "patchiness" of the surface."There are lots of areas with grass and then there are lots of bare areas, which makes it so difficult because you can't predict the bounce of the pace," he told ESPNcricinfo. "Some balls turn, some don't turn, some bounce, some keep low. It's challenging for the batters - and there's a significant dew factor as well."But Daren Ganga, another regular commentator at the venue across the CPL and international cricket, believes that the bounce will be truer in Wednesday night's semi-final between Afghanistan and South Africa after remedial work over the past two weeks."They have adapted the pitch to have more of an even covering of grass density along the cracks," Ganga told ESPNcricinfo. "The grass in the cracks is what has created the variability in bounce and pace. That's going to change and that's going to improve. It's going to be a higher-scoring venue. You wouldn't see that variability again: I can assure you of that."The central strip - pitch No. 5 - will be used, meaning that there will not be a short boundary for batters to target. "It's probably a 155-160 par type of pitch," Ganga predicted. Scores were significantly lower in the four group games there, in part because three Associate teams batted first in matches against Full Members.The pitches have proved hard to predict in the venue's short history, since its completion in 2017. In December, England racked up 267 for 3 there thanks to Phil Salt's second successive hundred; two nights later, on the same strip, they were spun out for 132 in a tight defeat. It suggests that the surface can change quickly.T20 World Cup stats:Matches: 4 Average first-innings score: 91 Average runs per over: 5.48 Defending wins: 1 Chasing wins: 3All T20Is stats since July 2022:Matches: 8 Average first-innings score: 138 Average runs per over: 7.18 Defending wins: 4 Chasing wins: 4 AMG 63Magazine Test Kitchen SouthAfrica Cape Town Interior Restaurant Industrial Credit Andy Lund1 The Test Kitchen Cape Town South Africa TTK 1024x683 The Test Kitchen Restaurant Cape Town Theworldkeys.com 11 1024x768.webp Large 90b4f7e1e4 2566970 Orig 73d7aba80540269181d21082b4a201ca Test Kitchen 02 The%2520Test%2520Kitchen 2018 The%2520Test%2520Kitchen%2520 %2520Chamomile%2520ice%2520cream,%2520cardamom%2520and%2520brown%2520butter%2520sponge,%2520toasted%2520sunflower%2520seeds%2520(HR) The Test Kitchen Restaurant Cape Town Theworldkeys.com 10 1024x683.webp 3583 1587536 Af7f1461b606678dec2f8527048f3da6 Test Kitchen 2020 02 18 19 53 39 Cf9870605b1e6c09e2ef4de99d8a7742 Test%2BKitchen%2B(16) Test%2BKitchen%2B(21) 2019 02 15 06 58 27 1cf7948629b57efd5b421c83d891d49c The%2520Test%2520Kitchen 2018 The%2520Test%2520Kitchen%2520 %2520Chamomile%2520ice%2520cream,%2520cardamom%2520and%2520brown%2520butter%2520sponge,%2520toasted%2520sunflower%2520seeds%2520(HR) Test Kitchen 3 Test Kitchen Testkitchen7 Large F5377f5d38 Vr5E CW1lFSI4 5hFcWo2PmDJdXXo2FkEMOuZo0c HW TF4gKS3g ULJw5eZd4xh6eHZndRPbEZqtftyWq465tnx=s1000 Maxresdefault Screen Shot 2016 06 15 At 9.36.23 AM 6b09935291f10f54a014e165474a7908 IMG 1316 E1466865825275 Testkitchen2 Large B56344cab2 Testkitchen4 Testkitchen6 Cape Town The Test Kitchen 92 2020 02 18 19 52 14 1a472a8e79f5c754a8247059a2f84c2b Untitled Design 56 800x529 Maxresdefault