New York's Nassau County Stadium will host eight matches of the T20 World Cup scheduled for June, including the high-voltage clash between Pakistan and India on June 9.
"One day I got a phone call from the ICC asking if I was interested and available to prepare pitches for the World Cup in the US," Hoff said. There were also climatic challenges, however, my team and I accepted the challenge, we developed drop-in pitches in Florida because the weather there is better in winter than in other parts of the US.
He said that the pitches could not be prepared in the very cold weather of New York, we planted grass known as Bermuda grass on these pitches in America, the biggest challenge was to move these pitches from Florida to New York, a distance of 2,000 km. It used to take two days to cover the distance, we brought these pitches on big trawlers, there were different weather conditions along the way, our experience was only to carry these pitches for 2km in Adelaide but in life you always have a first time. Always do.
It should be remembered that Glenn Maxwell scored 120 runs on only 55 balls in Adelaide Oval against West Indies in February this year. He said that I have not seen the best pitch in my career.
According to Damonhof, New York will also have a pure T20 track, where the ball will come straight to the batsmen's bats and they will be able to play their shots, hoping for high scores, maximum entertainment for the fans.
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