Harbhajan Singh, a former Indian cricket player, has harshly criticised the type of pitches being made in India. The Indian pitches, according to many others, have been rather one-dimensional.
Harbhajan Singh attributed Indian cricket’s slow growth on the type of surfaces being built for home advantage.
The fact that several Indian spinners have been found wanting on even marginally less spin-conducive wickets was another point he made.
Because every delivery spins or straightens on the wickets we’ve been playing on, there’s no need to turn anyone into a bowler. Only when a bowler takes wickets on good pitches can they be deemed good. It’s time for us to play on quality cricket fields. Harbhajan was cited by India Today as saying, “It has been more than ten years playing on those pitches where there has not been overall growth of (Indian) cricket.”
After R Ashwin retired, Harbhajan Singh, who took 417 Test wickets with his off-spin, said the Indian side lacked a good off-spinner.
It appears that India lacks a right-arm off-spinner with specialised skills for Test cricket. We will need to bowl Washington Sundar more, but I believe he is there. To turn him into a bowler, he will need to be bowled for thirty to thirty-five overs in a Test match, he continued.
For the uninitiated, the Indian spinners in the recently finished two-match Test series claimed fewer wickets than the South Africans. Despite playing in familiar surroundings, the spin spinners failed to penetrate the Proteas hitters.
India will be searching for a left-arm spinner to carry on Jadeja’s legacy when he announces his retirement from Test cricket because he is not getting any younger. at the red-ball games at Kolkata and Guwahati, Sundar bowled just 49 overs in three innings.
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