Former India player not impressed with Australia’s victory on green Gabba pitch, predicts India to ‘dominate’ in Border-Gavaskar Trophy

The Gabba pitch for Australia vs South Africa’s first Test is facing everyone ire for being too swing-friendly. As a result of vast green-ness, the match ended in just two days as the hosts cruised to a six-wicket victory against the Dean Elgar side.

Many have raised questions about the pitch with Elgar claiming it to be a one-sided affair. Even former India batter Virender Sehwag called out the hypocrisy as a Test match that ends early in India faces a lot of flak for its poor (spin-friendly) pitch.

Now, another former India cricketer Reedinder Sodhi has also come out in criticism of the Gabba pitch. He has claimed that even ordinary bowling would have been effective on such green pitches. Sodhi was also unhappy with the game being ended in just two days.

“It is not a great exhibition for Test cricket if you’re using the pitch to get wickets. Even a normal bowler can make the ball seam on such a green pitch. That doesn’t help anyone judge the true quality of a bowler. So personally, Test matches should go on for 4-5 days and wicket has to play a really crucial role.”

Kuldeep Yadav’s performance has simply been brilliant- Sodhi

Coming onto the upcoming Border- Gavaskar Trophy, Sodhi has claimed that India would walk to a series win against Australia. He has also predicted that Indian spinners would outclass the Australian batters and bring India an easy win and help qualify for the World Test Championship (WTC) Final.

“The series against Australia will be a hard-fought one. However, we do have the arsenal in our bowling to dominate the opposition. Kuldeep Yadav’s performance has simply been brilliant. This has now given us three quality frontline spinners, who bowl with venom and who also can be rotated if you want to add an extra seamer. So we definitely have the resources.”

India is currently playing a 2-match Test series against Bangladesh the first of which was won by the KL Rahul-led side. The second match starts on 22^nd December at Sher-e-Bangla stadium.