Pitch conditions and controversy goes hand in hand. After India’s loss in the Hyderabad Test, the Vizag Pitch came under the scanner. While India’s was bowled by the spinning track in Hyderabad, the Vizag pitch remained slow and flat. India bounced back strongly to level the series at 1-1. However, India’s head coach Rahul Dravid has claimed that they don’t ask for rank turners in home matches.
It is no surprise that Indian pitches are bound to spin. But Dravid has made it clear that it is difficult to predict pitch conditions before hand. He made it perfectly clear that they don’t ask for rank turners. While visitors find it difficult in such conditions, it is a double edged sword. Indian batters too find it difficult to counter spin friendly tracks.
“Curators make the pitches. We don’t ask for rank turners. Obviously tracks in India would spin, how much they’ll spin, how less they’ll spin, how much. I’m not an expert, obviously, wickets in India in the course of four or five days, they do turn but how much they’re going to turn,” said Rahul Dravid.
“I sometimes get told they’ll turn on the third day, but they turn on the first day. Sometimes I get told they’ll turn on the second day and they don’t turn till day four,” Dravid added.
The English spinners wove their magic in Hyderabad and bundled out India on Day 4 to secure a sensational win. The entire batting order crumbled down in spin favoring track in Hyderabad. But conditions in Vizag were different. The pitch remained flat and India managed to clinch a strong win to level the series.
“So I’m sometimes as clueless as anybody else. We look at the wicket and we try and do the best we can on what we get. We go to Rajkot, we’ll see what we can get and play with whatever we get in front of,” Dravid concluded.
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