Huh! What? Tendulkar suggests 2 different pitches, 2 balls in one game

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar suggested tht Ranji matches should be played on two pitches and with two balls in New Delhi on Saturday PicPTIIconic cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on Saturday gave a radical suggestion of introducing two different balls and two pitches in the same match in domestic cricket to improve the standard of the game in the countryThe 43yearold who retired from Test cricket in 2013 said this will help to maintain a balance between two different kinds of tracks and also play with two different ballsHe also had an interesting take on how to make bilateralTest series engaging by having backtoback homeandawayrubbers so that the strength of two teams remains mostlyconstant but the conditions change to make for a biggerchallengeHowever it is Tendulkars suggested innovations of twodifferent pitches for a single Ranji match which will makeanyone sit up and take noticeI have thought a lot about neutral venues in RanjiTrophy which is being experimented this season I have asuggestion which can be radical When we go to places likeAustralia New Zealand West Indies and South Africa we playwith kookaburra balls which swings early Think about a youngRanji batsman playing with SG Test in India and then facingdifficulty overseas Tendulkar spoke at Hindustan TimesLeadership SummitLet us have the first innings on a green top with kookaburra balls which would give openers a challenge Evenbowlers will have something Our spinners will also learn howto bowl with kookaburra on Green tops Tendulkar explainedHis next suggestion was even more interestingNow let there be a pitch adjacent to the green top which would be a rank turner Now the second innings will be playedon that track with the SG Test ball which would also help ourbatsmen play against quality spin bowling We have been toofocussed on playing pace in overseas conditions but we should not forget how to play spin bowlingDont forget even overseas teams are losing to us in India May be they would start using SG in their domestic matchesFor Tendulkar two pitches two balls in two innings of a match takes Curator preparing designer pitches out of theequation and also nullifies the toss factorA captain would start thinking that winning the toss will give him only 10 percent advantage that is his right tochoose first But if he chooses to bowl on green top he shouldremember that he would need to bat on a Turner in the fourthinnings he said making it clear that it may or may notclickIn fact BCCI president Anurag Thakur was among the audience listening with rapt attentionAbout the dwindling crowd in Test cricket Tendulkarblamed lack of rivalry in the longest format that has causedthe interest in the sport not to forget the emergence ofTwenty20When we grew up we had rivalries like Sunil Gavaskar vsImran Khan Viv Richards vs Jeff Thomson and then Brian Laravs Glenn McGrath or Steve Waugh vs Curtly Ambrose West Indiesteam in 80s and 90s generated interestThe target then was to beat the West Indies Australiawere an incredible team Nine world class and if 34 couldclose the game That is missing he lamentedAsked what could be a solution Tendulkar said Look wewent to England in 2014 and lost the series Now England aredown in this series and since 2014 they have lost a couple ofplayersMy suggestion is to have back to back matches againstsame the side home and away Let us play two Tests in Indiaand then two Tests in England Same set of players butdifferent venues Obviously there will be some changes interms of form and injuries but core will be same That will bea fair contest