India, Feb. 10 -- The Odisha government on Monday sought an explanation from the state's Cricket Association (OAC) over the glitch in one LED floodlight tower in Cuttack's Barabati Stadium during Sunday's India-England one-day international match. The match was stopped for 35 minutes due to the goof-up.

Odisha sports director Siddharth Das wrote to OCA secretary Sanjay Behera, asking for an explanation in the next 10 days on why such a major lapse occurred despite adequate preparations.

On Sunday evening, when India batted chasing a target of 304 runs, one of the floodlights went off after the sixth over. It came back quickly, but after another ball, it went off once again. The players and umpires waited for about 10 minutes before walk...