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Pitching for a good pitch And raising some uncomfortable questions on ‘home advantage’ The Ahmedabad Test was the shortest match since 1935, where 29 of the 30 wickets that fell went to spinners. What’s more, of these 29 wickets, 21 batsmen fell to straight deliveries. This predictably led to a huge furore over the quality of the wicket. Leading the critics was former England captain Michael Vaughan, who even urged the ICC to act against the BCCI for preparing such a pitch. The ‘defenders’ of the pitch found nothing wrong with it but everything wrong with the England batsmen and their attitude. Virat Kohli and R Ashwin (who’s going through a purple patch both with the ball and bat) defended the pitch with the latter even asking, a touch self-righteously, “what’s a good surface, who defines it?” He even went on to debunk the concept of a ‘good pitch’ which, according to conventional wisdom, is supposed to initially favour seam bowlers, then the ....
Cricket News: India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed that his planning before a game goes to a 'different level' and he watches a lot of footage before a ma ....