New Delhi: Embarrassed by the pitch fiasco in final ODI between India and Sri Lanka, an apologetic Delhi and District Cricket Association ON Sunday said it will take all possible steps to ensure that such an incident did not happen again."We regret the inconvenience caused to all spectators and others. We offer our apologies to them. We have decided that all gate tickets will be refunded. Refunds will be made through the media by which they were sold and a detailed announcment in this regard will be made ion a day or two," DDCA president Arun Jaitley told reporters after the match was called off because of a dangerous pitch.
"We have taken the matter very seriously. Though it is a technical matter as pitches come into the supervision of BCCI's technical committee, we will look into every aspect of the issue so that it is not repeated again," he said.To the embarrassment of the DDCA officials, the game at the Ferozeshah Kotla was called off when the Sri Lankan innings was into its 24th over after Thilina Kandamby complained to the on-field umpires about the dangerous bounce.This led to a mid-field conference involving Match Referee Alan Hurst, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his Lankan counterpart Kumar Sangakkara, coaches from both sides Gary Kirsten and Trevor Bayliss and the man in the eye of storm, Kotla curator Vijay Bahadur Mishra.
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