Healy unleashes over 'pathetic' India act

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Former Test wicketkeeper Ian Healy has demanded the International Cricket Council enactment aft Indian curators erstwhile again scuppered Australia's preparations.

Curators successful Nagpur were past week busted preparing the centre wicket successful a mode that would theoretically hamper Australia's left-hand batters, of which determination was 4 successful the apical seven.

The Aussies were subsequently bowled retired for 177 and 91 to lose the archetypal lucifer by an innings and 132 runs.

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The pursuing day, coaches and staffers had organised for the Australian squad to usage the aforesaid transportation astatine VCA Stadium for immoderate much-needed centre-wicket practice, connected what would person been a fourth-day Test wicket.

But erstwhile they arrived for the league they realised the transportation - and the signifier nets - had been watered, according to media outlets successful Nagpur including the Sydney Morning Herald.

It meant the Aussies had nary prime but to cancel the signifier session, contempt having reportedly been guaranteed usage of the facilities by the section association.

The tourists person fundamentally been robbed of indispensable grooming up of the 2nd Test successful Delhi connected Friday.

"I deliberation it's a pathetic effort," Healy said connected SEN vigor connected Monday, taking purpose astatine the Indian curators.

"It's truly embarrassing, the scuppering of our plans to get immoderate signifier sessions connected that Nagpur wicket.

"That's not good, that's conscionable not bully for cricket."

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Healy present wants the sport's planetary governing assemblage to act, and guarantee specified incidents bash not hap successful future.

"The ICC needs to measurement successful present and say, 'Our nations request to spot each different overmuch better, if you petition definite conditions to signifier and hole on, you indispensable get them'," helium said.

"For them to h2o the wicket unceremoniously erstwhile it was requested for signifier is horrible and that has to improve."

Australia had a overmuch much condensed mentation for this Test series, owed mostly to a humanities deficiency of spot with Indian curators.

The squad opted not to organise a circuit lucifer successful India, preferring to alternatively stitchery successful North Sydney wherever groundsmen were tasked with preparing a transportation to replicate conditions connected the subcontinent.

"Last clip (India) dished up a green-top for america and we hardly faced immoderate spin, truthful it's benignant of irrelevant," Steve Smith told media a fortnight ago.

"We're amended disconnected having our ain nets and getting spinners successful and bowling arsenic overmuch arsenic they can."

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