Jaipur: Supporting Ravi Shastri in the pitch controversy involving him and Wankhede stadium's curator Sudhir Naik, former captain Kapil Dev on Tuesday said the Indian cricket team's director was right in demanding a pitch that suited the home side.

Controversy erupted as India suffered a heavy loss against South Africa in the fifth and deciding One-Day International (ODI) thanks to three hundreds from the visiting batsmen to surrender the series 2-3.