The second Test match between India and South Africa, which ended within two days on Thursday, with just 642 balls bowled, is the shortest completed Test match ever. Arguments about the pitch condition surfaced again after the match got over.
This time, Indian captain Rohit Sharma did not pull any punches. He said he “did not mind” playing in “challenging” pitches as long as everyone does not “talk too much about Indian pitches”. When pitches start “turning on Day 1 in India, people start talking about the puff of dust,” he complained, but no one spoke of the many cracks in Newlands pitch.
He said that the referees should rate pitches on “what they see and not based on the countries”.
