NEW DELHI: Legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar launched a scathing assault on the critics who at all times query Indian pitches following a dramatic second day of the fifth Take a look at on the SCG the place 15 wickets tumbled.
“If 15 wickets fell [on one day] in India, all hell would have damaged unfastened. We had Glenn McGrath saying he’d by no means seen a lot grass. Did you hear any former India cricketer moan in regards to the pitch?” mentioned Gavaskar on ABC Grandstand Radio after day two’s play ended.
“After we exit and play cricket we are going to toughen it out. And if we’re crushed, we’re crushed. Abroad it is very troublesome to beat residence groups.
“I did say that once we noticed the pitch yesterday, the cows might have gone and grazed on it.
“This isn’t the perfect Take a look at match pitch that you really want since you need it to enter a fourth and fifth day. Except there’s rain I do not see us being right here on day 4.”
Gavaskar additionally lambasted former Australian and English gamers, stressing that Indians by no means complain about overseas pitches. He remarked that if 15 wickets had fallen in a single day in India, there would have been an uproar.
“Former English and Australian cricketers all time speak in regards to the Indian pitches and circumstances. We’re not moaners, we’re not whingers. You will by no means discover us complaining, however 15 wickets in a day in India, there could be hell”, Gavaskar mentioned.
An explosive Rishabh Pant slammed the second-fastest Indian Take a look at half-century to drive the guests to a 145-run lead with 4 wickets left.
On the shut in Sydney, India have been 141/6 with Ravindra Jadeja on eight and Washington Sundar six after they dismissed Australia for 181 in reply to their first-innings 185.
