Whenever a team go to England to play cricket they always have to deal with swinging condition. When a team go to Australia they have to deal with extra bounce. But when Australia comes to India they always start complaining about turning tracks.
Why are they so scared of it? And why do they always say a turning track is unfair? The pitch is the same for both teams, whoever will play better will win at the end of the day. Maybe toss can play a role but it didn’t India any advantage which other didn’t get in their home ground.
“If India produces unreasonable wickets like last time, Australia won’t win.” Former Australian wicketkeeper, Ian Healy stated that last month. Did he want to say Australian are not good at facing spin? What did he have to say about the uneven bounce India got to face in Australia? And how India got all out at 36, was it also some kind of unfair advantage? Australians always struggled with spinning pitches.
This time also they can be seen struggling on the first day of the first test match. Where the Australian team got all out for 177, on the same pitch Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul can be seen playing comfortably. Rohit Sharma started his inning with 3 fours in the first over. Now if they say it is an unreasonable pitch then it is not a reasonable comment.
They are the 5 times champions of the world cup they shouldn’t give such kind of excuse, they should seek to do better in every department instead of complaining and winning with unfair means. It will not be long before they will start sledging on the field, it always happens whether it’s an Indian pitch or an Australian pitch, they always sledge to distract the players.
Spinning tracks are not unreasonable but sledging players to distract them is definitely an unfair means to win the game. On the first day the world how they struggled on the Indian pitch, who knows what will happen later and what kind of excuses will come out? Australia should not give such type of comments, their records say all about how they go against the game rules.
Two of their key player were got suspended for 1 year for ball tampering. Instead of this if they would have concentrated on how to play spin, they wouldn’t need to give excuses.