NEW DELHI: All the three Tests of the continued Border-Gavaskar Trophy up to now have completed inside of 3 days courtesy the rank turners on be offering however India trainer Rahul Dravid on Tuesday defended the wickets announcing that the World Test Championship Points do push nations to arrange result-oriented pitches.
While the Nagpur and Delhi pitches escaped with an ‘reasonable’ ranking via the ICCthe Nagpur pitch, the place the fit completed inside of 7 periods was once rated ‘deficient’ via the fit referee.
The pitches were too spin-friendly, no longer offering a balanced contest and the batters from each the edges have struggled to get going within the mud bowls.
“I won’t go too much into it. Match referee is entitled to share his opinion. Doesn’t really matter if I agree with his reading or not. Doesn’t matter what I think. But sometimes with WTC points at stake, you tend to play on wickets that produce results,” Dravid was once easy in his protection of the 3 tracks in Nagpur, Delhi and Indore.
However, he did not omit to say that knowledge research of tracks ready via house groups in the previous few years has proven that the 22-yard strips in maximum puts were difficult.
“It can happen, not only in India but across the world if you see, sometimes it is difficult to get that balance perfectly right for everyone and that can happen not only here but in other places as well,” the person with 164 Test suits underneath his belt.
Dravid did give just a little of concept as to what has been the cause at the back of requesting all these raging turners. It was once the 2021 Test fit in Kanpur towards New Zealand the place India failed to select up 9 wickets at the ultimate day.
“There is a huge premium on results and if you draw a game like we did in Kanpur versus New Zealand, that sets you back in a home game. When you have 12 for a win and 4 for draw, you want to get a win ahead of a draw,” he stated.
There was once a touch of sarcasm in addition to inflammation when he spoke concerning the tracks in South Africa the place India performed 3 Tests early closing yr.
“We have played on some challenging wickets when we go overseas also. Played in South Africa recently (2022), where spinners were completely taken out of the game,” he stated curtly.
“And everyone wants to produce wickets where eventually one wants results. You will probably prepare wickets where the ball holds a bit more sway over the bat and that’s necessary and part of the game,” Dravid did not deny the bowlers’ benefit.
Batting performances want little bit of standpoint
India have just one century amongst top-order batsmen, scored via skipper Rohit Sharma, whilst Cheteshwar Pujara is the one different participant with a 50 plus rating.
“You need to be realistic as to what is a good performance on these challenging wickets, not only here but if you look at last three to four years, wickets have generally got challenging everywhere.
“So you wish to have to be sensible what the bench-marks are actually, what requirements are on all these surfaces only one excellent efficiency can trade the sport. We noticed that with Rohit’s efficiency (in Nagpur) and we’ve got observed that.”
On these tracks, Dravid, in fact, is not even expecting a double hundred or a ‘Daddy Hundred’.
“It is probably not a double hundred however a 50-60 or 70 someplace, however may if truth be told be an excessively, superb rating in some stipulations.”
Someone cheekily asked about the critics, saying that during the head coach’s playing days there used to be good batting strips on offer and 550 plus used to be scored.
“No one needs extremes however it may occur. It’s not that i am going to expose private conversations with my avid gamers and everybody needs to win and qualify.”
(With inputs from PTI)
While the Nagpur and Delhi pitches escaped with an ‘reasonable’ ranking via the ICCthe Nagpur pitch, the place the fit completed inside of 7 periods was once rated ‘deficient’ via the fit referee.
The pitches were too spin-friendly, no longer offering a balanced contest and the batters from each the edges have struggled to get going within the mud bowls.
“I won’t go too much into it. Match referee is entitled to share his opinion. Doesn’t really matter if I agree with his reading or not. Doesn’t matter what I think. But sometimes with WTC points at stake, you tend to play on wickets that produce results,” Dravid was once easy in his protection of the 3 tracks in Nagpur, Delhi and Indore.
However, he did not omit to say that knowledge research of tracks ready via house groups in the previous few years has proven that the 22-yard strips in maximum puts were difficult.
“It can happen, not only in India but across the world if you see, sometimes it is difficult to get that balance perfectly right for everyone and that can happen not only here but in other places as well,” the person with 164 Test suits underneath his belt.
Dravid did give just a little of concept as to what has been the cause at the back of requesting all these raging turners. It was once the 2021 Test fit in Kanpur towards New Zealand the place India failed to select up 9 wickets at the ultimate day.
“There is a huge premium on results and if you draw a game like we did in Kanpur versus New Zealand, that sets you back in a home game. When you have 12 for a win and 4 for draw, you want to get a win ahead of a draw,” he stated.
There was once a touch of sarcasm in addition to inflammation when he spoke concerning the tracks in South Africa the place India performed 3 Tests early closing yr.
“We have played on some challenging wickets when we go overseas also. Played in South Africa recently (2022), where spinners were completely taken out of the game,” he stated curtly.
“And everyone wants to produce wickets where eventually one wants results. You will probably prepare wickets where the ball holds a bit more sway over the bat and that’s necessary and part of the game,” Dravid did not deny the bowlers’ benefit.
Batting performances want little bit of standpoint
India have just one century amongst top-order batsmen, scored via skipper Rohit Sharma, whilst Cheteshwar Pujara is the one different participant with a 50 plus rating.
“You need to be realistic as to what is a good performance on these challenging wickets, not only here but if you look at last three to four years, wickets have generally got challenging everywhere.
“So you wish to have to be sensible what the bench-marks are actually, what requirements are on all these surfaces only one excellent efficiency can trade the sport. We noticed that with Rohit’s efficiency (in Nagpur) and we’ve got observed that.”
On these tracks, Dravid, in fact, is not even expecting a double hundred or a ‘Daddy Hundred’.
“It is probably not a double hundred however a 50-60 or 70 someplace, however may if truth be told be an excessively, superb rating in some stipulations.”
Someone cheekily asked about the critics, saying that during the head coach’s playing days there used to be good batting strips on offer and 550 plus used to be scored.
“No one needs extremes however it may occur. It’s not that i am going to expose private conversations with my avid gamers and everybody needs to win and qualify.”
(With inputs from PTI)