It's a pitch, not a 200-yr-old antique that you can't touch: Kotak on Oval curator row
After The Oval pitch curator Lee Fortis objected to India being near pitch and was involved in altercation with Gautam Gambhir, batting coach Sitanshu Kotak said, "You can be protective...but at the end of the day it's a cricket pitch." He added, "It isn't an antique that you can't touch...because otherwise if it's 200 years old, it can be broken."