It’s been an eventful week for India since the tourists landed in Melbourne, the latest issue the state of the MCG practice pitches used by the tourists in their opening training sessions.
Melbourne Cricket Club curator Matt Page has defended the preparation of net pitches offered up to India before the Boxing Day Test as visiting media raise the spectre of a “conspiracy” against the tourists., India’s players noted they were not given the best pitches available at the MCG at training on Saturday and Sunday, while their press gallery reported that the net pitches the team trained on were low and slow, and batsmen too easily played off the front foot.
“Today, we are on fresh pitches. If India had trained this morning, they would have been on those fresh pitches. It’s stock standard procedure for us, three days out.”Promising a centre wicket for the Test that will excite fast bowlers, Page said the fresh practice pitches would offer more life and bounce than those used at the weekend.
This masthead noted that India were given the best of the centre-wicket pitches at the WACA before the series began in Perth. Australia had only one session at the WACA, and that was on a pitch on the edge of the square because of Women’s Big Bash League commitments, frustrating the men’s team. The Indian pace ace has a series-high 21 wickets at a remarkable average of just 10.9, and is now preparing to return to his most productive venue in Australian cricket, for he has 15 wickets at 13.06 in only two Tests at the MCG.
Page said that the drop-in deck, with its six millimetres of grass cushioning will aid all fast bowlers, including Bumrah. Page has played an instrumental role in the rebirth of the pitch nursery and, by extension, the centre wickets after they were lashed by the ICC late last decade, putting the ground on notice over its future pitches.
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