Cloud over Green Park & combination

With two strips prepared, conditions could determine whether Kuldeep will play at his home ground or not

- FIROZ MIRZA

WILL it be strip five or six? That was the million dollar question when representatives from both India and Bangladesh inspected the pitches on the eve of the second Test here at the Green Park Stadium on Thursday.

With the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association preparing two pitches with black soil out of available nine, India skipper Rohit Sharma and head coach Gautam Gambhir took a close look at them. For Bangladesh, head coach Chandika Hathurusinghe was the first to cast his doubts after he saw the two prepared pitches on Wednesday.