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Pitch imperfect? The message from the BCCI may have been on uniformity in pitch preparation, but doubts over the neutral-venues concept continued to be raised after the opening round of the Ranji Trophy. The Mumbai-Tamil Nadu opener in Lahli, a marquee clash in Group A, finished in a little over two days, with 34 out of the 38 wickets to fall taken by the fast bowlers.It was basically a very green pitch, Abhishek Nayar, who made an unbeaten 45 to help Mumbai scrape home by two wickets, told ESPNcricinfo after the game. Initially, there was a very thick covering of grass that made it very tough for stroke-play. What made things more difficult was the outfield was super slow, so getting boundaries was not easy.It wasnt too different in Ranchi, where Chhattisgarh beat Tripura by nine wickets. While Yashpal Singh, Tripuras most experienced batsmen, termed it a rubbish pitch, Sulakshan Kulkarni, Chhattisgarhs head coach, also wasnt pleased with the surface despite his side recording a historic win. The wicket was up and down right from the start, he said. You are supposed to have consistent bounce to begin with, but here it was scooting low and shooting up right from the start. There wasnt a blade of grass. Surely better wickets can be prepared. Whats the use of playing on these kind of surfaces even after adopting neutral venues?Maharashtras loss to Jharkhand at the Karnail Singh Stadium, which was banned from hosting first-class cricket for a year in 2012, also threw the spotlight on the 22 yards. Kedar Jadhav, who scored two half-centuries in a losing cause for Maharashtra, was fuming after the game. If a match gets over in close to three days, it is not a good sign for cricket. It has to be a good quality pitch, where you get four days of competitive cricket, he told the Times of India. The result does not matter. The match has to last for four days. That is how the quality of cricket in general will rise.Uthappa, Gautam swap no more One of the reasons cited for possible discord within the Karnataka set-up during the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy was that of Robin Uthappa and CM Gautam, two of their most experienced players, being in the middle of an unwanted restructuring. Karnataka began to alternate wicketkeeping duties between Uthappa and Gautam at the behest of KSCA secretary Brijesh Patel in order to facilitate Uthappas return to international cricket as a wicketkeeper-batsman. 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President of baseball operations Larry Beinfest was fired Friday after 12 years with the Marlins. The move came as the team neared the end of its third consecutive last-place season in the NL East. West Indies A 305 for 5 (Mohammed 105*, McCarthy 102) in 47 overs beat Sri Lanka A 248 for 7 (Gunathilaka 58) in 38 overs by eight runs (D/L method)Scorecard Bad light denied Sri Lanka A in Colombo as they fell eight runs short of the Duckworth-Lewis revised target of 257, conceding the one-day series 0-3 to West Indies A.An interruption due to rain in the 12th over had reduced the match to 47 overs a side. West Indies A made 305 for 5 in that time with centuries from captain Jason Mohammed and Andre McCarthy. But Sri Lanka A were taking a right tilt at the target. They needed 58 runs in 54 balls with three wickets in hand, and they had hard-hitting allrounder Dasun Shanaka at the crease on 32 off 26 when the umpires called the players off the field due to bad light. With no further cricket possible, Sri Lanka A were left agonisingly short.West Indies A, though, would have been thankful for the runs they had on the board. They had won the toss, opted to bat and found themselves at 59 for 3 in the 15th over before Mohammed and McCarthy joined forces. Their 163-run partnership not only revived tthe innings but put their team in a position of dominance.dddddddddddd Mohammed finished unbeaten on 105 off 108 deliveries while McCarthy - from 6 off 13 - racked up 102 off 75, hitting left-arm spinner Sachith Pathirana for four fours in the 31st over.With a total of 305 on the board, West Indies A strengthened their hold of the game by allowing only one Sri Lanka A batsman - opener Danushka Gunathilaka - to cross fifty. But with the hosts at 166 for 6, their lower-middle order started fighting back.Pathirana and Shanaka hammered 51 runs in 33 balls for the seventh wicket and when West Indies A broke that stand, Nuwan Kulasekara and Shanaka bashed 31 in 13 balls to inspire hopes of a consolation victory. But it was not to be.Having lost the game by such a narrow margin, they may have wondered how things might turned out if their bowlers had pushed harder having reduced West Indies A to 59 for 3, or about how Charith Asalanka had eaten up 41 balls to make only 23. ' ' '