Fuming Indian skipper defends 'poor' pitch

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Indian skipper Rohit Sharma has deed backmost astatine changeless disapproval of pitches successful his country, adjacent aft the wicket for the 3rd Test successful Indore was rated arsenic "poor" by the ICC.

Sharma's broadside has already retained the Border-Gavaskar trophy courtesy of a 2-1 pb done 3 Tests against Australia, but all 3 matches person failed to spell beyond time three, prompting wide disapproval of the pitches offered up.

ICC lucifer referee Chris Broad offered a scathing appraisal of the transportation astatine Indore's Holkar Stadium pursuing Australia's nine-wicket win.

"The pitch, which was precise dry, did not supply a equilibrium betwixt bat and ball, favouring spinners from the start," helium said successful his report.

"The 5th shot of the lucifer broke done the transportation aboveground and continued to occasionally interruption the aboveground providing small oregon nary seam question and determination was excessive and uneven bounce passim the match."

India's hopes of winning the 3rd Test were doomed successful the opening league aft losing 7 wickets earlier luncheon connected time one contempt winning the flip and electing to bat first, but Sharma inactive defended the conditions.

"This transportation speech is conscionable getting excessively much," helium said. "Every clip you play successful India there's lone absorption connected the pitch. Why are radical not asking maine astir Nathan Lyon and however good helium bowled, however good (Cheteshwar) Pujara batted, however good Usman Khawaja played. We absorption excessively overmuch connected the transportation present successful India and I don't consciousness it's necessary.

"Former cricketers, I don't deliberation they played connected pitches similar this. These are the kinds of pitches we privation to play on, this is our strength. When you're playing astatine your home, ever play to your strength. Not interest astir what radical extracurricular are talking about. Our spot is rotation bowling and batting depth.

"Everyone uses that vantage arsenic location side, truthful what's incorrect with that. We've got to bash that arsenic well. Especially erstwhile we are getting results. If we were not getting the results, I would deliberation otherwise. But we are playing well, getting the results we want."

While the Indore transportation was deed with 3 demerit points by the ICC, Indian cricket fable Sunil Gavaskar came to the defence of the aboveground arsenic well.

"One happening I would similar to know, determination was this Test lucifer successful November successful Brisbane (at the) Gabba, wherever the lucifer finished successful 2 days. How galore demerit points did that transportation get and who was the lucifer referee there," helium told India Today.

The 2 teams present determination to Ahmedabad for the 4th and last Test of the series, with the lucifer to get underway astatine 3pm AEDT connected Thursday, March 9.

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