'I don’t believe a pitch should be going through the top on day one' - Mark Taylor gives his assessment of 'poor' Indore pitch

The Indore Test between India and Australia became the third consecutive game to produce a result in the first three days of the match in the ongoing Border Gavaskar Series. Despite Australia's resounding victory on a raging turner, the pitch in Indore has come under scrutiny from the Australian contingent. After the ICC rated the Indore pitch as 'poor', former Australian skipper Mark Taylor gave his take on the controversial surface.

Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor did not hold back on his assessment of the Indore pitch, labelling it the worst of the three venues in the series so far. He was surprised to see the surface deteriorate from the first day, outlining the poor preparation by the curator. 

"I definitely think the pitches have been poor for the series, to be totally honest, and obviously the Indore one was the worst of the three. I don’t believe a pitch should be going through the top on day one. You might understand that day four or five if the game goes that long, but not day one, that’s just poor preparation," the former Australian cricketer told the Herald and The Age.

I don’t think there was any skulduggery going on at the Gabba: Taylor

Following ICC's assessment of the pitch, former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar raised the question about the Brisbane pitch which hosted the first Test between Australia and South Africa in December last year. However, Taylor defended the green pitch in Gabba, saying that the surface was not prepared to suit any one team in particular, unlike the one in Indore.

“I think they’ve got to keep an eye on that sort of stuff because people look at the Gabba this season. The groundsman there just got it wrong. He left too much grass on it but, in a way, it didn’t favour either side. It would have favoured the South African seamers just much [as Australia] because they’ve got four very good seamers.

"So I don’t think there was any skulduggery going on at the Gabba. I think with Indore, I hope I can say the same thing there, but what happened there, the pitch was so poorly prepared it actually made the game a bit more of a lottery, which didn’t favour India at all," Taylor added.

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