On Wednesday, however, India’s seamers bowled just 11 bowlers picking one wicket while the spinners took nine scalps, bowling 37.4 overs on a surface that has less grass than is usually required for pink ball Test.
Left-arm spinner Axar Patel (6/38) and off-spinner R Ashwin (3/26) shared nine wickets as England struggled, partly because of the pitch that began to help spin early and partly because of their inability to play spin and stay confused.
When contacted by IANS to comment on Motera wicket, Damian Hough, the chief curator of Adelaide Oval, the venue that has hosted most day-night games — five — refused to comment, saying he prefers to avoid commenting “out of respect to other curators and given the many variables between different pitches, conditions etc.”
At 74/2, with one of the wickets picked early in the third over by pace bowler Ishant…