00:00So we've installed eight pitches at the HPCA stadium in in Dharamshala, there's
00:05four on the main stadium site and then there's two each on each of the two
00:08practice areas. The pitches on the main stadium were used for practice for the
00:14two IPL games that were recently played there for range hitting and for
00:19bowl throughs and the feedback initially was been very very good. There was more
00:24pace, more bounce. The Indian players who used them didn't appreciate that they
00:28were hybrid pitches which is a good thing. A couple of the English
00:32players did notice because there were a couple of bare areas from a previous
00:36game that hadn't fully recovered and there were a few fibres that they could
00:40see. So Jonny Bairstow, Sam and Tom Curran, Liam Livingstone, they were playing in
00:44the different games there. They noticed it was a hybrid but the Indian players
00:49didn't. So that's our first installation. Mr. Arun Dumal, he supported that
00:55initiative with us and he actually had a bat on one of the pitches
00:59during the press launch that we did there and he was
01:03supposed to be there for about 10 minutes but he actually batted for about
01:06an hour so he was obviously enjoying himself. We've also installed a
01:11pitch on the academy ground at the the main stadium in Ahmedabad in Matera and
01:17that was installed more recently. It's not been used yet because obviously it's
01:22been monsoon season and there's no cricket being played so we're looking
01:25forward to see the first use of that one. We've got other installations planned in
01:30the HPCA area which will take place over the next few weeks and we've got lots of
01:35interest from around the country from the state associations that we've met
01:40with. So there's a number of proposals on the table out there and we're hoping to
01:45install in more sort of major centres over the next few months.
01:51you
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