New Delhi, Feb 4 (PTI) Fully aware of the current Indian batting line-up’s issues of tackling spinners on rank turners, the team management will do well to ask for sporting tracks against Australia in the upcoming four-match Test series, one which offers turn from third day, feels former selectors and experts.
Once known as master players of spin, the Indian teams in recent years have looked more at home against express pace and steep bounce while struggling against slow bowling.
The only noteworthy innings in the last two to three years on a rank turner would be current skipper Rohit Sharma’s technically perfect knock of 161 on a wretched Chepauk track where the other top order batters had struggled.
Even an attack comprising Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Shakib Al Hasan and Taijul Islam made life difficult for India in the second away Test in Mirpur last December before Ravichandran Ashwin and Shreyas Iyer bailed them out.
“Playing spinners on flat deck isn’t the problem. We must admit that our batters have struggled against quality spin bowling on tracks that have offered turn. I don’t know what kind of tracks will be in the offing but rank turners could backfire,” former Test spinner and noted commentator Murali Kartik told
Source: PTI News
