Cricket Affiliation of Bengal President Sourav Ganguly has defended curator Sujan Mukherjee. amid criticism over the pitch ready for the opening Take a look at between India and South Africa at Eden Gardens. The floor has closely favored bowlers, providing flip and bounce from the primary day and making life tough for batters.
Till the third innings, Temba Bavuma was the one batter to register a fifty, highlighting the shortage of a fair contest between bat and ball, opposite to Ganguly’s earlier assurance. Former England captain Michael Vaughan additionally weighed in, bluntly describing the floor as an terrible pitch.
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Ganguly maintained that the pitch was ready precisely as India needed, including that that is how a floor naturally behaves when it is not watered for 4 days.
“The pitch is what the Indian camp needed. That is what occurs when you do not water the pitch for 4 days. Curator Sujan Mukherjee cannot be blamed,” Ganguly informed News18 Bangla.
After the second day’s play, which noticed 16 wickets fall, India bowling coach Morne Morkel admitted they hadn’t anticipated the pitch to deteriorate as rapidly because it did.
“Yeah, look, I imply, to be sincere with you, even we did not count on a wicket to deteriorate so rapidly, all of us thought after we watched that first couple of hours that it was wicket, so it did deteriorate fairly rapidly, which was surprising,” Morkel stated after the second day’s play.
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Regardless of bowling South Africa out cheaply within the first innings, India managed solely a slender lead of 30. However Ravindra Jadeja’s four-wicket haul rattled the Proteas within the second innings, with solely Temba Bavuma providing any actual resistance.
India are presently chasing 124 to win the Kolkata Take a look at and take a 1-0 lead within the two-match collection. They’re aiming to finish the very best profitable run chase within the historical past of Take a look at cricket on the Eden Gardens.
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