Ravi Shastri wishes Delhi pitch to be same as Nagpur

“I would hope the one in Delhi is absolutely the same”. There was a lot of help for the spinners. You compare this Test to the Test match in Perth, I would pay money for a ticket for this game. He additionally opined that he wishes fourth Test match pitch in Delhi is same as Nagpur.

“[The pitch was] completely not [a problem]”. If you rise up and attain there [to the pitch of the ball] and there’s a floor like which you could play on it. You have to cease cribbing and get on with the job at hand.

He opposed the truth that Nagpur’s pitch got here underneath scrutiny due to the low bounce from the primary of the Test and stated: “Where was inconsistent bounce?”

Allrounder Glenn Maxwell described the “minefield” pitch as “diabolical” on Twitter, while former opener Matthew Hayden was disappointed to “see the quality of Test cricket reduced to what we are witnessing”.

While there is a good deal of truth in that, it is also a fact that turning tracks of the Indian sub-continent have usually got much more stick than seaming pitches.

Among other bowlers who created big impact last week, Josh Hazlewood produced man-of-the-match figures of nine wickets for 136 runs as Australia clinched the three-Test series 2-0 inside three days in the inaugural day/night Test.

Amla had said, however, South Africa could still have been bowled out for less than 100 in their second innings, and alluded to an element of luck in the second innings where they played and missed often. Sometimes a ball turns on day one but then it flattens out on day two and three.

Ashwin was unsurprisingly named as the man of the match for his 12-wicket haul in the game. “Where does it tell me in the rulebook it can only swing and seam?” he added.

“Let them [former Australian cricketers] sit in Australia and talk about their pitches”. During the game, Ashwin also became the highest wicket-taker this year with 55 scalps, ahead of England pacer Stuart Broad (51).

The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president was of the view that a decision by the Indian government regarding the India-Pakistan cricket series was a complex, time-consuming issue and any decision will not be taken hurriedly. “He (Ashwin) has bowled superbly”. The off spinner, who was previously ranked No.5, now has a career-high 856 points, only 28 behind No. 1 ranked Test bowler Dale Steyn. The early finishes have reportedly not gone down too well with the official broadcaster, with reports suggesting that company had suffered loses to the tune of Rs 80 crore due to the early finishes.

The fourth and final Test of the series starts in Delhi on Thursday.

The home team desperately needed to bounce back in the Test series to answer the critics with their performance and intent to upset a rampaging South African brigade who were looking to improve their nine-year-old away series record.