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England skipper Joe Root on Thursday stated it’s as much as the ICC, and never the gamers, to resolve whether or not the “difficult” Motera pitch is appropriate for Test cricket after his aspect was crushed inside two days by India in a low-scoring day-nighter right here.
Root refused responsible the floor for England’s batting woes after the group folded for 112 and 81 in its two innings. But he stated it’s the ICC that ought to take into account the suitability of the pitch for Test cricket.
“I think that this surface, it’s a very challenging one, is a very difficult one to play on. It is not for players to decide whether it is fit for purpose or not and that is upto the ICC,” stated Root, who took a career-best five-wicket haul throughout India’s first innings.
“As players we are going to try and counter what is in front of us as best as we can,” he added.
Root stated his group missed the chance to get a giant first innings whole, which appeared doable when it was 70 odd for simply two wickets.
“We are upset, I really feel we’ve missed a possibility, extra so within the first innings than something. The place we discovered ourselves in at 71/2, we had an actual probability to (rating huge).
“In hindsight, if we would have got 200, that would have been a very good score on that wicket and the game would have looked completely different,” Root stated on the digital post-match press convention.
Root stated the pink ball turned an enormous issue on the pitch given the good efficiency by left-arm spinner Axar Patel.
“The ball was fairly a giant issue on this wicket. The plastic coating and the hardness of the seam in comparison with the pink SG ball meant it virtually gathered tempo off the wicket. Quite a lot of the dismissals on each groups have been truly attributable to overwhelmed for tempo (and) not overwhelmed on the within.
“And credit to Axar in particular. He utilised and exploited that exceptionally well and found a good method on that surface, which made it very challenging,” he added.
Patel (6/38 and 5/32) and Ravichandran Ashwin (3/26 and 4/48) wreaked havoc on the floor and Root stated his aspect must discover a approach to be higher.
“We have got to get better and we are going to keep looking to find a way to scoring runs on surfaces like this,” Root stated.
Root was additionally requested whether or not ICC ought to take over pitches if it was conducting the World Test Championship, to which he stated that was a choice for the ICC to make.
“That is one thing the ICC will take a look at and that’s the resolution they must make. There is all the time going to (be) slight house benefit. The resolution is there for the ICC to make.
“But as players, we want to play against the best, we want to compete against the best in whatever conditions they are,” the England skipper added.
With Thursday’s loss, England have been knocked out of rivalry from the World Test championship last as they wanted to beat India at-least by a margin of two Tests within the four-match collection.
The fourth and the ultimate Test can be performed on the identical venue from March 4.
