BCCI review: Poor selections, pitches to be discussed

After being blanked twice in the last three home Test series, BCCI will look to take stock with head coach Gautam Gambhir and chief selector Ajit Agarkar at some stage of the surfeit of white-ball internationals coming up next.

- Rasesh Mandani

While it may be convenient to overlook the Test debacles with India's next Test roughly eight months away, there are WTC trophy bragging rights at stake and the format is structurally too important to be left unattended. Whether the review is in-person and circuitously publicised like last time or not, the BCCI hotlines will be in motion to address the falling graph of India's Test cricket.

Home Pitches

As the transitioning team struggles to ace spin-friendly tracks with bat and bowl, there will be forward planning on what kind of home pitches should play on and whether that should influence the nature of pitches on offer in the Ranji Trophy. The South Africa Tests showed the current batting crop were not at home on neither the Kolkata black-soil pitch nor the traditional red-ball turner in Guwahati