However, former players who watched the game on the broadcast did not hold back while criticising the pitch with Yuvraj Singh saying Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh would have picked 1000 and 800 Test wickets if they played on such surfaces.
“Finished in 2 days. Not sure if that’s good for test cricket !If @anilkumble1074 and @harbhajan_singh bowled on these kind of wickets they would be sitting on a thousand and 800? However congratulations to (India) @akshar2026 what a spell! congratulations @ashwinravi99 @ImIshant,” Yuvraj tweeted.
Alastair Cook, the last England captain to beat India in a Test series in India, in 2012-13, said that he was surprised to hear India skipper Virat Kohli’s opinion on the pitch being good for batsmen.
“Virat Kohli’s come out and defended the wicket almost as if it’s a BCCI thing — it cannot possibly be the wicket. Yet it was so hard to bat on that today. So hard,” said Cook on Channel 4.
“Take the wicket out and blame the batsmen? We’ve got Virat Kohli,…