AUS vs IND: ‘We want to create more exciting Tests, so we leave more grass on now,’ says MCG curator Matt Page
A cold wind hustled through the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Seven years ago, the pitch was quite flat,” Page said. “We sat down as an organisation and said we want to create more exciting Tests, so we leave more grass on now, and that brings the bowlers into it a bit more, but the surface is still good for batting once the new ball goes off. It will seam around the whole game with the new ball.” Asked about the variable bounce encountered on pitches that Rohit Sharma’s men trained on, Page explained, “We prepare the practice pitches three days before the game and if India had turned up today, they would have got fresh ones. It is standard procedure.” And that hopefully would end the debate over why India did not get fresh ones for nets during the weekend.
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