‘Might have spotted rough patches from the plane’: Jadeja’s epic response to Nagpur pitch critics | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Ravindra Jadeja made a stunning comeback to international cricket by winning the player of the match award for his all-round performance in the first Test against Australia.
India outplayed Australia in all departments of the game to register an innings and 132 runs victory and took a 1-0 lead in the four-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
The Nagpur pitch was under a lot of criticism from the former Australian players and media and even blamed the hosts for deliberately making a rank turner.
When Jadeja was asked the ‘pitch talk’ that became the biggest talking point ahead of the match, he came up with an epic response saying the tourists might have spotted the rough patches on the wicket when they were in the plane, on their way to India.
“Unko flight se hi rough patches dikh rahe the (They had probably spotted the rough from the flight itself). The atmosphere they created that it would spin; it didn’t spin that much. If we see, they got out more to straight balls. We also got out lbw on straight balls,” Jadeja said on Star Sports after the match.
Jadeja also finds no fault in making spin friendly pitches as spin bowling has been India’s strength in home matches.
“This is bound to happen in India because we will obviously play to our team’s strength. Our fast bowlers are also good, but spinners win more matches in India and pick up wickets, so why shouldn’t we go with our strength,” he said.
The all-rounder reminded the Aussies that India never complain when green tops are prepared for overseas assignments.
“When we go to Australia, they put 18-20 mm grass. We don’t talk about the pitch then, hence they shouldn’t say such things when they come to India,” he said.

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