India will play the last Test of the four-Test series against England at the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad starting tomorrow. India currently hold a 2–1 lead over England. After losing the first match of the series, India easily won both matches on a spinner-assisted pitch in Chennai and then Ahmedabad. The third game was over in two days. After this match, many world cricket players are constantly criticizing the Indian pitch for helping spinners. Now Team India captain Virat Kohli has expressed his views on this whole issue.
A day before the start of the Fourth Test against England, Kohli said of the growing controversy over the turning pitch: “We also lost the three-day match in New Zealand last year. At that time, there was nothing to say about the pitch. Our strength is that we focus on ourselves, not on the pitch. We have to be honest about this. ”Notably, the third Test match between India and England in Ahmedabad ended in just two days. It was seen 50 years later in a Test series between the two countries.
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“I think there’s been a lot of talk about the spin track,” Kohli said. Our media should try to show that spin tracks happen in India. I have no idea why pitch is being discussed instead of batting and bowling. The batsmen of both teams could not do much in the third Test. Better to focus on the game than the pitch.
Prior to Virat, Ajinkya Rahane, the vice-captain of the Test team, also said that criticism of the country’s spinners’ assistant pitch a day earlier should not be taken seriously. He said on Tuesday that he had never spoken against bouncy pitches abroad (which is helpful for fast bowlers) and that England should expect spinners to get an assist in the fourth Test in Ahmedabad.
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Rahane in a slightly angry tone, let people say what they mean. When we travel abroad, nobody says anything about the pitch and helps the fast bowlers. Then they talk about the tactics of Indian batsmen, which I don’t think is necessary. You have seen the Indian Test vice-captain, when we go overseas, there is a lot of moisture on the first day wicket. When there is grass on the pitch, the ball bounces in an unusual way. In such a situation, the pitch is dangerous but we have never complained about it.
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