Vengsarkar stated that India should learn from England and Australia, where large crowds gather to watch Test cricket, but this is not the case in our country. If you want to watch good cricket, the pitch is everything.
You need wickets with even bounce so that both batters and bowlers have an equal chance. It makes a mockery of Test cricket if the ball turns from day one and the first session itself, and that too with uneven bounce, Vengsarkar told news agency PTI.
It is critical to reintroduce Test cricket to the public. That is evident in England and Australia, but it is not evident in India. People will only return to Test cricket if it is interesting. Nobody wants to see bowlers dominating batters from the start, he added.
In defence, one of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association’s curators stated that they had very little time to prepare the surface because the venue for the third Test was changed at the eleventh hour.
A Test wicket takes at least a month to prepare. Pitches, too, require rest. In this case, there were only two weeks between the Ranji Trophy semi-final and this game. Prior to that, an ODI against New Zealand was played last month. That appears to have influenced how the pitch is behaving said a subject matter expert.
