Following the embarrassing defeat, the former Indian captain Srikkanth said that the national team walked straight into their own trap. The pitch, which was prepared to help India’s spinners, ended up behaving wildly from the first session itself, with some balls staying low, some shooting up, and others spinning sharply at the Eden Gardens.
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The former Indian chief selector added, “On these turning tracks, India has been on the back foot. Look at the scores: 159, 189, 153, 93. Obviously, there's something wrong with the wicket. On the first day, Bumrah bowled an absolute snorter to Markram that nearly went above his head. It's up and down for the quicks; it's turning square for the spinners. On this surface, even I would have taken wickets if I had bowled. Bowling stump-to-stump would have done the trick.”
Kris Srikkanth tears into India’s selection blunder
But Sundar did not bowl even a single delivery in the second innings. Srikkanth found it unbelievable that the team picked an extra spinner but never used him, especially on a pitch built for turn.
While Jadeja took four wickets in South Africa’s second innings, his effort was overshadowed by Simon Harmer, whose seven-wicket match haul ripped through India. In the first innings, it was Bumrah and Siraj who actually carried the workload with seven wickets between them, raising even more questions about the strategy of loading the attack with spinners.
Srikkanth questions Washington Sundar's role in India XI at Eden Gardens
He signed off by saying, “They played 4 spinners, and one spinner (Sundar) didn't even bowl. In the second innings he didn't bowl a single ball. I don't understand the logic behind selecting 4 spinners. My problem is not with selecting Washington and playing him at No. 3, but with not giving him any bowling whatsoever.”
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