'Not right': India slammed over Test debacle

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The Indore transportation continues to gully criticism aft 14 wickets fell connected the opening time of the third Test betwixt Australia and India.

Remarkably, India didn't telephone connected a accelerated bowler until the 22nd implicit of the Australian innings. By the extremity of the time the spinners had bowled 76 of the 88 overs, taking 13 of the 14 wickets, with the different being a tally out.

India was each retired for 109 aft winning the flip and electing to bat, with the aboveground nether occurrence astir immediately, arsenic balls turned sharply and kept low.

Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor was amazed astatine however acold the shot turned for Australia's archetypal wicket, which came successful conscionable the sixth implicit of the time erstwhile Rohit Sharma was stumped disconnected Matt Kuhnemann.

"That pitch, balls were disturbing the surface, oregon going done the top, which means the transportation is not prepared right," Taylor told Wide World of Sports.

"Don't get maine wrong, I similar the information spinners get conditions that suit them occasionally, but successful the aforesaid mode the Gabba transportation past summertime was poor, the transportation successful Indore is mediocre arsenic well, for precisely the other reason.

"The Gabba transportation was excessively greenish and we got a two-day Test match. The transportation successful Indore should beryllium rated the same, due to the fact that it's astatine the different extremity of the scale.

"If Australia tin marque different 100 runs successful the archetypal innings, there's a accidental this lucifer could beryllium implicit successful 2 days.

"I don't privation radical to deliberation that I don't similar it due to the fact that it's turning," helium added.

"That's not the problem. It shouldn't beryllium going done the apical connected time one.

"That's not a good prepared pitch."

The archetypal 2 matches of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy were implicit successful 3 days, and lone a singular turnaround volition spot this lucifer agelong beyond Friday's 3rd day, if it adjacent gets that far.

At a clip erstwhile Test cricket faces contention from assorted T20 leagues, successful peculiar the wildly fashionable Indian Premier League, that's intelligibly not bully enough.

Indian writer Karan Sethi tweeted that "Test cricket successful India is the crushed Test cricket is dying" and the opposition betwixt the 3 time matches successful India and the New Zealand-England epic astatine the Basin Reserve could not beryllium starker.

"I've said a fig of times that I'd similar to spot four-day Test matches, due to the fact that I deliberation we tin shorten the game, marque captains state a spot much connected level pitches, which I deliberation would beryllium much absorbing for Test cricket," Taylor said.

"That mightiness springiness you a fewer three-day games, which I don't mind, but these are 5 time games that don't look similar going that long.

"They're truthful abbreviated you tin astir play 2 Test matches successful the 5 days."

India batting manager Vikram Rathour did his champion to support the authorities of the pitch, pointing retired that this lucifer was lone moved to Indore 2 weeks ago.

"The transportation did a batch much than we expected," helium said.

"But, to beryllium just connected the curators also, I deliberation they hardly [had] clip to hole this wicket.

"It was beauteous precocious that it was decided that the crippled was shifted from Dharamshala to this venue, truthful I don't deliberation they [had] capable clip to truly hole the wicket."

Speaking connected Cricinfo, former Australian skipper Ian Chappell said preparing pitches according to the big team's wishes was a flimsy connected the game.

"Should players and administrators beryllium telling curators however to hole the transportation and what benignant of transportation they want? It is the top load of rubbish I person ever heard," helium said.

"The transportation should beryllium near to the curator. The curator produces what helium thinks is simply a bully pitch, and past you get connected and play connected it.

"Once you person got the administrators and cricketers telling radical what they deliberation the transportation should be, past you are asking for trouble."

Former Indian batter Aakash Chopra was different to criticise the pitch, noting it was adjacent worse than a greentop, which should yet flatten retired into a decent batting surface.

"There is an inherent occupation with a aboveground that is simply a fertile turner from time one," helium told Cricinfo.

"When you commencement a crippled wherever the puff of particulate is determination from shot 1 … it conscionable keeps deteriorating.

"You're doing a disservice to the crippled of cricket."

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