For the second time in the series, which saw the second Test washed out by rain, a match had been ended inside three days.
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“There have been three scores of under 50 runs in South Africa but I haven’t seen any sort of articles on that”.
India won the first test at Mohali by 104 runs, and the third at Nagpur by 124 runs. A BCCI official, meanwhile, said that if the pitches for this series did not pass muster, the ICC should form its own committee to oversee pitch preparation across the globe and stop accusing member boards of pursuing home advantage to an undue extent.
The ICC match officiating team’s “poor” rating of the Nagpur pitch has had no impact on Virat Kohli’s outlook towards the playing surfaces.
Some experts are suggesting we eliminate the toss and allow the visiting side decide to bat or field.
When the World No. 1 Test team South Africa were wobbling against an unplayable Indian spin attack in the recently concluded 3rd Test at Nagpur, cricketers from across the globe expressed their opinions (read concerns) as to how a rank turner was ruining the beauty of Test cricket.
The Delhi lad also pointed out that the first ever pink ball Test between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide recently was dominated by the pacers with the former winning the game on the third day. “So I don’t see anything wrong with any kind of wicket that we play on”.
“My cricket started here with the state team”. The match finished inside three days. I don’t understand why we are not sitting here and talking about the fact that we are 2-0 up in the series, and again we are trying to criticise our players.
“I think if someone had applied himself he would have got 80-odd, 90-odd, even a hundred”.
ICC rules decree that if they confirm that the pitch was “poor”, a warning can be issued and/or “a fine not exceeding US$15,000 (imposed), with a directive for appropriate corrective action”.
The South African cricket team, which rushed to the pitch after arriving at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Tuesday for a practice session, hoped that the fourth and final Test against India would last more than three days, says a report in The Hindu. What we should be criticising and discussing is the reason why South Africa’s veteran trio of Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis have failed terribly in whites on this tour. Every Test match is an important match.
The Indian spin trio – Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Amita Mishra – will look to pile on the agony for the Proteas batsmen in the final Test. Indian skipper Virat Kohli particularly praised Ashwin for his performance in the last Test.
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This was South Africa’s first away Test-series defeat in nine years and Kohli suggested there would be no respite for the visitors, now the top-ranked Test team. “As I have often said, it is a different skill but one that could lull batsmen into thinking that is the way of the world”.
