NEW DELHI: All the three Tests of the continuing Border-Gavaskar Trophy to this point have completed inside three days courtesy the rank turners on provide however India coach Rahul Dravid on Tuesday defended the wickets saying that the World Test Championship factors do push nations to arrange result-oriented pitches.
While the Nagpur and Delhi pitches escaped with an ‘common’ score by the ICC, the Nagpur pitch, the place the match completed inside 7 session was rated ‘poor’ by the match referee Chris Broad.
The pitches have been too spin-friendly, not offering a balanced contest and the batters from each the edges have struggled to get going within the mud bowls.
“I won’t go too much into it. Match referee is entitled to share his opinion. Doesn’t really matter if I agree with his reading or not. Doesn’t matter what I think. But sometimes with WTC points at stake, you tend to play on wickets that produce results,” Dravid was simple in his defence of the three tracks in Nagpur, Delhi and Indore.
However, he did not neglect to say that information evaluation of tracks ready by residence groups in previous few years has proven that the 22-yard strips in most locations have been difficult.
“It can happen, not only in India but across the world if you see, sometimes it is difficult to get that balance perfectly right for everyone and that can happen not only here but in other places as well,” the person with 164 Test matches below his belt stated.
Dravid did give a little bit of concept as to what has been the set off behind asking for these form of raging turners. It was the 2021 Test match in Kanpur towards New Zealand the place India failed to choose up 9 wickets on the ultimate day.
“There is a huge premium on results and if you draw a game like we did in Kanpur versus New Zealand, that sets you back in a home game. When you have 12 for a win and 4 for draw, you want to get a win ahead of a draw,” he said.
There was a touch of sarcasm in addition to irritation when he spoke concerning the tracks in South Africa the place India performed three Tests early final 12 months.
“We have played on some challenging wickets when we go overseas also. Played in South Africa recently (2022), where spinners were completely taken out of the game,” he stated curtly.
“And everyone wants to produce wickets where eventually one wants results. You will probably prepare wickets where the ball holds a bit more sway over the bat and that’s necessary and part of the game,” Dravid did not deny the bowlers’ benefit.
Batting performances want little bit of perspective
India have just one century amongst top-order batter, scored by skipper Rohit Sharma, whereas Cheteshwar Pujara is the one different participant with a 50 plus rating.
“You need to be realistic as to what is a good performance on these challenging wickets, not only here but if you look at last three to four years, wickets have generally got challenging everywhere.
“So it’s good to be real looking what the bench-marks are actually, what requirements are on these sorts of surfaces only one good efficiency can change the sport. We noticed that with Rohit’s efficiency (in Nagpur) and we’ve got seen that.”
On these tracks, Dravid, in fact, is not even expecting a double hundred or a ‘Daddy Hundred’.
“It may not be a double hundred however a 50-60 or 70 someplace, however may truly be a really, excellent rating in some circumstances.”
Someone cheekily asked about the critics, saying that during the head coach’s playing days there used to be good batting strips on offer and 550 plus used to be scored.
While the Nagpur and Delhi pitches escaped with an ‘common’ score by the ICC, the Nagpur pitch, the place the match completed inside 7 session was rated ‘poor’ by the match referee Chris Broad.
The pitches have been too spin-friendly, not offering a balanced contest and the batters from each the edges have struggled to get going within the mud bowls.
“I won’t go too much into it. Match referee is entitled to share his opinion. Doesn’t really matter if I agree with his reading or not. Doesn’t matter what I think. But sometimes with WTC points at stake, you tend to play on wickets that produce results,” Dravid was simple in his defence of the three tracks in Nagpur, Delhi and Indore.
However, he did not neglect to say that information evaluation of tracks ready by residence groups in previous few years has proven that the 22-yard strips in most locations have been difficult.
“It can happen, not only in India but across the world if you see, sometimes it is difficult to get that balance perfectly right for everyone and that can happen not only here but in other places as well,” the person with 164 Test matches below his belt stated.
Dravid did give a little bit of concept as to what has been the set off behind asking for these form of raging turners. It was the 2021 Test match in Kanpur towards New Zealand the place India failed to choose up 9 wickets on the ultimate day.
“There is a huge premium on results and if you draw a game like we did in Kanpur versus New Zealand, that sets you back in a home game. When you have 12 for a win and 4 for draw, you want to get a win ahead of a draw,” he said.
There was a touch of sarcasm in addition to irritation when he spoke concerning the tracks in South Africa the place India performed three Tests early final 12 months.
“We have played on some challenging wickets when we go overseas also. Played in South Africa recently (2022), where spinners were completely taken out of the game,” he stated curtly.
“And everyone wants to produce wickets where eventually one wants results. You will probably prepare wickets where the ball holds a bit more sway over the bat and that’s necessary and part of the game,” Dravid did not deny the bowlers’ benefit.
Batting performances want little bit of perspective
India have just one century amongst top-order batter, scored by skipper Rohit Sharma, whereas Cheteshwar Pujara is the one different participant with a 50 plus rating.
“You need to be realistic as to what is a good performance on these challenging wickets, not only here but if you look at last three to four years, wickets have generally got challenging everywhere.
“So it’s good to be real looking what the bench-marks are actually, what requirements are on these sorts of surfaces only one good efficiency can change the sport. We noticed that with Rohit’s efficiency (in Nagpur) and we’ve got seen that.”
On these tracks, Dravid, in fact, is not even expecting a double hundred or a ‘Daddy Hundred’.
“It may not be a double hundred however a 50-60 or 70 someplace, however may truly be a really, excellent rating in some circumstances.”
Someone cheekily asked about the critics, saying that during the head coach’s playing days there used to be good batting strips on offer and 550 plus used to be scored.
“No one desires extremes however it might probably occur. I’m not going to expose private conversations with my gamers and everybody desires to win and qualify.”
(With inputs from PTI)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com