Chappell’s feedback got here after the top of the primary day’s play within the third Test between India and Australia on the Holkar Stadium in Indore.
The hosts have been rolled over for a paltry 109 and the guests edging forward at stumps with a powerful present of disciplined batting, reaching 156/4 with an important 47-run lead.
“Should players and administrators be telling the curators how to prepare the pitch and what sort of pitch they want? It is the greatest bit of rubbish I have ever heard,” Chappell advised ESPNCricinfo.
Chappell was categorical that 22-yard strip is curator’s area and nobody ought to intrude and make unjust calls for.
“The pitch should be left to the curator. The curator produces what he thinks is a good pitch, and then you as players get on and play on it. Once you have got the administrators and cricketers telling people what they think should the pitch be, then you are asking for trouble,” he added.
Chappell mentioned pitch curators aren’t being given freedom to organize balanced pitches.
“I don’t think there is a curator alive who can say to you honestly, ‘look, I am going to prepare this sort of pitch’ because things can go wrong very easily.”
Preparing a rank turner is the riskiest of assignments that curators get as nobody is aware of how it could pan out to be because it occurred on Wednesday in the course of the third Test.
“If somebody says we want you to produce a turner, there is every chance it will turn out badly because as I say, no one can really predict – unless they are trying to prepare a good surface that suits everybody – then I think you are risking way too much.
“Any participant or administrator who goes to a curator and asks for a sure kind of pitch needs to be advised to go and bounce within the lake,” he added.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com