MUMBAI: Former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar has criticised the seamer-friendly pitch on the Sydney Cricket Floor (SCG) for the ultimate Check of BGT, which noticed Australia beat India by six wickets inside three days.
Vengsarkar needs ICC, which conducts the World Check Championship, to take cost of Check match pitches, identical to it does in its world white-ball tournaments, to make sure “good high quality Check cricket” for the quite a few followers who nonetheless throng to look at Check matches, as was evident in Australia.
“The standard of the pitch at Sydney was substandard. Identical to a number of the (turning) wickets that we provide for Exams in India are substandard. I feel that the time has come, if you wish to see good high quality cricket, you might want to guarantee good pitches on the highest stage. It’s time ICC screens the preparation of Check match wickets. They need to fly down their pitch consultants/curators for each Check staging centre at the least 10 days earlier than a Check. That is important so that folks get their cash’s price, and the sport, notably Check cricket, turns into well-liked,” Vengsarkar instructed TOI.
“In the event you don’t do that, each nation will put together poorquality pitches to make sure most factors for the WTC. The entire function of conducting the WTC is defeated,” the previous India chief selector acknowledged.
Whereas Australia’s Steve Smith stated that he hadn’t batted on a Sydney pitch with a lot grass in his life, Sunil Gavaskar was closely important of the pitch.
“The Sydney pitch was closely loaded in favour of pacers. It’s robust to bat on these sorts of strips. It’s simple to criticise the batsmen for not scoring runs, however the truth is the pitch was substandard. There was a lot grass on the pitch that the cows may’ve grazed on it! Sadly for us, (Jasprit) Bumrah acquired injured, in any other case Australia wouldn’t have been in a position to chase 162. However my level is, ‘Who needs to see groups get out or 150 or 180?’ Folks come to look at good cricket,” Vengsarkar stated.
