Hyderabad: After witnessing an exceptional display of reverse swing bowling from pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, India's former skipper Sourav Ganguly on Saturday demanded more sporting pitches in Test cricket that can go up to five days instead of rank turners.
The former left-hand batter, who has been a supporter of fast bowling throughout his career, believes that Indian bowlers are skilful enough to take all 20 wickets in a Test match on more competitive pitches on any pitch. He advocated for more competitive tracks for red-ball matches to watch some competition from batters as well. India has bowled out their opposition on 37 occasions out of 47 innings while having the best bowling average (25.27) of all the teams since the World Test Championship 2021.
Ganguly expressing his opinion on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), he said, “When I see (Jasprit) Bumrah, (Mohammed) Shami, (Mohammed) Siraj and Mukesh (Kumar) bowl, I wonder why do we need to prepare to turn tracks in India. My conviction of playing on good wickets keeps getting stronger in every game. They will get 20 wickets on any surface with (Ravichandran) Ashwin, (Ravindra) Jadeja, Kuldeep (Yadav) and Axar Patel.”
The former BCCI president also mentioned that overall batting quality in the longer format has dropped in the last few years because of preparing pitches that can favour the home team to turn results in their favour with quick results in mind.
