‘SG Test balls’ high quality wasn’t pleasing’: Virat Kohli shares R Ashwin’s viewpoint
2 min read India captain Virat Kohli on Tuesday joined teammate Ravichandran Ashwin in voicing his displeasure over the standard of SG Test balls used throughout the first Test in opposition to England as they went utterly tender by the sixtieth over with stitches coming off their seam.
The Indian bowlers, it was evident, weren’t pleased in regards to the situation of the crimson cherry however the two on-field umpires — Nitin Menon and Anil Chaudhary — didn’t pay a lot heed to their request for a change of ball.
“Quality of the ball (SG-Test) was also not what we were very pleased to see as that was also the case in the past. Just the ball completely being destroyed in 60 overs is not something that you experience as a Test side and any side could be prepared for,” Kohli mentioned.
The India skipper was talking after his staff’s 227-run defeat to England on the fifth and closing day of the opening Test right here.
“Having said that it’s not an excuse and England played better cricket and they deserve to win,” Kohli added.
There have been reviews that the Meerut-based Sanspareils Greenlands (SG) had manufactured a recent set of balls for the sequence with pronounced and enhanced (heightened) seam, darker color and tougher cork, however evidently issues that the gamers had with the standard of the balls, stays.
On Monday, Ashwin, who took 9 wickets within the match, additionally mentioned that they didn’t count on a torn seam with stitches being peeled off.
“I have never seen an SG ball tear (get torn) through the seam like that. So it could well be combination of how hard the pitch was on the first two days, even in the second innings after the 35th-40th over, the seam was getting sort of peeled off,” he mentioned.
Ashwin known as it weird and like Kohli, he additionally hadn’t skilled something like this.
“It was bizarre, I mean, I haven’t seen an SG ball like that in last so many years, but yeah, maybe it could be due to the pitch and the hardness of it through the centre which is making the ball get scuffed up.”
Ashwin hoped to know the explanations for this in the middle of the rest of the sequence.
“We will have an answer for it going through the series,” mentioned Ashwin, who had, in 2018, admitted that he felt extra comfy bowling with the Kookaburra.
