After Sourav Ganguly’s rank-turner remak, India’s head coach, Rahul Dravid, said that the team management doesn’t ask for rank-turners while playing at home. Rahul Dravid stated that it is not very easy to predict how the pitch will play out over the course of five days.
Before this series,the previous series, in which India played at home, was played on rank-turners, with most of the matches ending within three days.
However, the first two Tests against England in the ongoing series have gone on for four days.
While Hyderabad was a slow turner, the Vizag surface remained flat throughout the match. In this series, Rahul Dravid, the head coach of the Indian team, has been inspecting the pitches on a regular basis.
However, his long-time teammate and former captain, Sourav Ganguly, recently said that India should refrain from playing on rank-turners as they have a well-balanced bowling attack that consists of bowlers like Bumrah, Siraj Ashwin, etc.
Rahul Dravid said that he was clueless on the subject like anybody else.
After India’s victory over England in the second test, while addressing the media team, India’s head coach, Rahul Dravid, said, “Curators make the pitches. We don’t ask for rank-turners. Obviously, tracks in India would spin—how much they’ll spin, how little they’ll spin, how much. I’m not an expert; obviously, wickets in India in the course of four or five days do turn, but how much are they going to turn?
Rahul Dravid further stated, I sometimes get told that pitches will turn on the third day, but they turn on the first day. Sometimes I get told they’ll turn on the second day, and they don’t turn till day four,” Dravid said.
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“So I’m sometimes as clueless as anybody else. We look at the wicket, and we try to do the best we can with what we get. We go to Rajkot; we’ll see what we can get and play with whatever we get in front of.”
The series between India and England currently stands at 1-1, with the third match of the series going to start on February 15.
