NEW DELHI: The pitch curators at the Chepauk came up with a perfect and balanced strip for the first
India vs Bangladesh
that saw a good competition with bat and ball.
While the start of the Test saw assistance for the seamers, the surface aided the spinners as well throughout the Test. The third day of the match also saw two hundred being scored by the Indian batters.
For India, alongside R Ashwin, Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill tons, bowlers too made their mark with both pacers and spinners making good use of the surface and conditions.
Lauding India's clinical win over Bangladesh, former Pakistan batter
Basit Ali
heaped praise on pitch curators for providing a good Test pitch.
Along with praising the India curators, Basit hit out at the
Pakistan Cricket
Board for providing poor playing surfaces in the country.
"Bumrah picked 5 wickets in the game, Ashwin took 6 wickets, Jadeja clinched 5, Siraj took 2 and Akash Deep claimed 2 wickets. This is the account of 20 wickets. The bowlers ticked all the boxes. India played two spinners, keeping in mind that the ball will spin and it happened. So the credit goes to the pitch curators, who know how to make a Test match surface. Not like us... I am not going to that side but I am filled with anger," said Basit Ali on his YouTube channel.
"In our nation, they say there is no value of pitch. They are illiterate people. The one who have played cricket with pride are there on the Board (
PCB
). This is what I get angry. What are you teaching to kids.
"50 per cent of the issue is solved if you read the pitch well, ask Sunil Gavaskar and Javed Miandad. But they don't understand," he added.
The win was India's 7th in the current World Test Championship cycle as Rohit Sharma and co. tightened their grip on the top spot in the table.
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India's win in Chennai and the 12 WTC points mean that they moved to a percentage of 71.67%, extending their lead on Australia in second (62.50%).
Bangladesh, who had jumped to the fourth position following an exceptional 2-0 win against Pakistan, dropped to sixth place (point percentage of 39.29%) behind Sri Lanka and England after the defeat.
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