Ex India Star's Bold SA Pitch Verdict says, "Rohit Sharma Said No One Should Talk..."
After the second Test between the India and South Africa cricket teams ended in two days, former cricketer Aakash Chopra on his YouTube channel said that "a bad pitch should be called bad, whether it is ours or someone else's." The visitors won the second and final Test match of the two-match series by seven wickets on Thursday. With this victory, Rohit Sharma became the only Indian skipper to win a Test match at Wanders, Cape Town, in the history of cricket.
After the game, while speaking on his channel, Aakash agreed with Rohit that pitches around the world should be rated using the same criteria.
The commentator asserted, "The big question is what is right and what is wrong. Rohit said no one should talk about the pitch and that the match referees should watch properly because if you felt the World Cup final pitch was bad, what sort of pitch was this? He is right.”
He further added, "My thinking is, Is this pitch right? Are the one-and-a-half to two-day-match turners prepared in India, right? We are trying to justify one extreme with another. The truth is that neither this nor that is right. A bad pitch should be called bad, whether it is ours or someone else's.”