Aakash Chopra: “A bad pitch should be called bad, whether ours or someone else’s”

The second Test between India and South Africa finished in two days. Aakash Chopra, a former Indian cricket player, said on his YouTube channel, “A bad pitch should be called bad, whether it is ours or someone else’s.” The second and last Test match of the two-match series was won by the hosts by seven wickets on Thursday. Since the start of time, Rohit Sharma is the only Indian captain to have won a Test match at Wanders, Cape Town. Aakash agreed with Rohit that pitches all over the world should be graded using the same standards. He said this on his show after the game.

“What is right and wrong is the big question.” Rohit said that no one should talk about the pitch and that the match officials should pay close attention. He asked, “If you thought the pitch in the World Cup final was bad, what kind of pitch was this?” “He’s right,” the pundit said. “What I want to know is: Is this pitch right?” Are the one-and-a-half- to two-day-match turners that are made in India correct? We are using one extreme to defend another. The truth is that neither of these things is right. “A bad pitch should be called bad, whether it’s ours or someone else’s,” the former right-handed hitter said. “Let’s be honest: you can’t say that these pitches are good in any way, whether it’s in Cape Town, Wanderers, Perth, Ahmedabad, Indore, or Delhi.” “These wickets aren’t even difficult; they’re just luck-based,” the former India opener said.

It’s likely that Test cricket won’t be very exciting from now on, since South Africa is sending a second-string team to New Zealand and Pakistan is resting Shaheen Shah Afridi for the last Test against Australia. He thinks that even less people would be interested in the games if they weren’t played on good fields.