Day 5 Chennai pitch was worst floor I’ve seen: Jofra Archer

Jofra Archer, talking about England’s 227-run win towards India within the 1st Test, stated the Chennai pitch on Day 5 was the worst pitch he has seen. On the fifth and remaining day of the match, India misplaced 9 wickets inside two classes handy over a 1-0 collection result in the guests.
“I’d not played first-class cricket here (in India) before last week, but I know from experience of the IPL that most wickets in India deteriorate significantly, and seeing how the pitch changed during this Test shows us what we have in store,” Archer wrote in his column for Daily Mail.
“On the fifth day it was probably the worst surface I’ve seen — its orange colour, bits missing, rough patches for the bowlers to aim at,” he stated.

Archer additionally stated he “didn’t expect to skittle them” primarily based on the status of India’s batsmen and that whereas he was hopeful England would get India all out on the fifth day he didn’t anticipate the job to be executed as rapidly because it was.

Speaking about his bouncer assault on Ravichandran Ashwin on the fifth day, which had pressured the Indian physio to take frequent journeys to the pitch to examine on the Number 8 batsman, Archer stated it had not been a group plan. The discuss inside the group had been on sporting the ball out for reverse swing to come back in later within the day, however that he needed to strive one thing totally different to unsettle Ashwin.