India has 13 Tests lined up this season and this series would be the beginning of the journey. Much, obviously, would depend on how the spinners deliver. The Kanpur Test will be INDIA’S 500TH since its inaugural one in 1932. The historic occasion should inspire Kohli and the team to make the season a memorable one.
This is the best Test cricket season in a longtime. Three back-to-back series involving New Zealand, England and Australia should gladden the traditionalists. For them it should be a welcome departure from T20 cricket.
The focus, obviously, would be on the pitches. As to whether they would be turners or 50-50 surfaces.
International cricket has not seen many teams winning a series overseas. It is all about playing your best cricket at home and India is no exception. The thumping wins against Australia and South Africa when they visited last only drove home the point that home pitches are the key since they are prepared to make things difficult for the visiting side.
NEW ZEALAND IS NOT THE BEST OF TRAVELLING TEAMS.
It is formidable at home but quite vulnerable overseas. India is no different when it travels to Australia or England. For that matter India is yet to win a Test series in Australia and South Africa. So, when it gets a chance to host a series, India goes flat out with spinner-friendly pitches. It is not going to be any different this time.
“We are expecting the wickets to turn,” Ross Taylor read the situation correctly on the eve of the tour match against Mumbai in Delhi. “We are not expecting the Test wickets to look the way it is looking at the Kotla. Regardless of whether you are playing on a bouncy green wicket or on a turning wicket, you have got to put yourself under pressure in training and try to simulate as much as possible,” Taylor said.
One does not have to hear this from Taylor. The curators have been instructed to roll out pitches that would make bowlers like R. Ashwin, Amit Mishra and Ravindra Jadeja most lethal.
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