'If you make…'- Ex-India cricketer gives huge warning ahead of Test series

Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra has advised against preparing fertile turner pitches for the upcoming two-match Test bid betwixt India and West Indies, informing that specified surfaces could beryllium counterproductive by reducing the spread betwixt the 2 teams.

The bid is scheduled to statesman with the archetypal Test successful Ahmedabad connected October 2, followed by the 2nd Test successful Delhi connected October 10.Chopra shared his views done a video connected his YouTube transmission 'Aakash Chopra,' wherever helium discussed the value of transportation mentation for the series.

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"The biggest happening is what benignant of pitches you privation to play connected successful these 2 matches. We got stuck successful Bengaluru erstwhile the transportation had a batch of moisture. Then we went to Pune and Mumbai and played connected turners, and got stuck successful some places. Why bash you person to marque specified pitches?"Chopra emphasized that excessive bowling-friendly conditions could payment the West Indies spinners, perchance making them look much formidable than they are."Such pitches are not required astatine each due to the fact that the much bowler-friendly pitches you make, the person the teams come. You are playing successful the subcontinent. So the shot volition turn. However, if it turns from the archetypal shot and the ungraded starts coming out, enactment distant from that benignant of a aboveground due to the fact that that aboveground is counterproductive."The erstwhile India opener pointed retired that West Indies spinners Jomel Warrican, Khary Pierre, and Roston Chase could airs important challenges connected fertile turners.

Chopra advocated for surfaces that would let matches to advancement people into the 4th oregon 5th day."You should play connected bully pitches wherever you volition person to enactment a small hard. If the lucifer doesn't get implicit successful 3 days, truthful beryllium it. It's a five-day match. It's perfectly good if it's a three-and-a-half to four-and-a-half time game."He besides drew attraction to however utmost bowler-friendly pitches affected the performances of elder Indian batsmen successful caller years."I volition beryllium precise honest, if you spot Virat Kohli oregon Cheteshwar Pujara's careers, you volition find that the runs they didn't people successful the extremity for a agelong time, the main crushed for that was the Indian pitches. When you marque specified pitches successful India, wherever runs aren't scored, you don't get confidence, and runs won't beryllium scored overseas successful immoderate case."The cricketer-turned-commentator referenced India's palmy attack during their location bid against England past year, wherever they secured victories successful the last 4 Tests connected balanced pitches.Chopra suggested that the upcoming Tests against West Indies should diagnostic pitches that supply a just situation to some batsmen and bowlers, ensuring competitory cricket implicit aggregate days alternatively than speedy finishes connected utmost surfaces.The treatment comes successful the discourse of India's caller experiences with challenging transportation conditions, including their losses successful the Test bid against New Zealand connected turner pitches past year.