If the game had gone into the fifth day, you wouldn't have called it a bad pitch' 'I don't remember a single ball turning square or jumping from a good length. There were too many soft dismissals.' 'When the Test match gets over inside three days in England, it's due to our incompetence in playing swing-seam.


Ravichandran Ashwin bowls during practice session on the eve of the second Test match against South Africa in Bangalore yesterday. Pic/AFP

When the Test match gets over in three days in India, it's because of a bad pitch' These were some of the things that Captain Kohli said in the press conference after the first Test match. He was clearly unhappy about the questions raised with regards to the quality of the pitch offered for the first Test match and he was right. Yes, the pitch assisted spinners from the first session of the first day but not even a single ball misbehaved. It was indeed a spinner-friendly surface but not a pitch that was 'doctored' to skew the balance completely in bowlers' favor.