Spinners to play crucial role at Mohali

Looking at the current form of Indian spinners it may seem like team India can clinch the victory in 3rd test of
Border Gavaskar trophy as well. But this venue is known to have had the fastest wickets in the country in the past, the Australians might be hoping that they would finally get a breather and some help from the wicket. We can have a look at what stats say about this venue, specially India's performance at this venue is comparatively good. But India has had problems with green bouncy tracks in the history, this is one of the weak point of this team.

Well, before Australians can start thinking of adding extra pacer instead of a spinner, they have to listen to this once again. Daljit Singh, who is the curator at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali. In charge of preparing the wicket for the Test match,  has prepared a rank turner, the wicket will still assist the spinners and any help that the pacers get will be restricted only to the morning session of each day. This will be a shocker to aussies looking at their continuous bad performance against Indian spinners, specially Ashwin and failure of their spinners on the same track. 

“It is March and summer has set in. So you can very well understand how the wicket will play. There is no mystery to it,” Daljit told Mail Today, clearly hinting that the pacer- friendly wickets of Mohali is a thing of the past, especially with Dhoni’s demand for rank turners.

But Arthur(Australia coach) believes that he and his team are okay with the conditions on offer.

“I think it is fair for the home team to have the advantage. I would have been really disappointed to come to India and not have my players face Indian spinners on spinning tracks. At the end of the day this is a lesson in itself and helps players evolve.

“Looking at world cricket at the moment, I feel it has come to a situation where the number one team is that which wins consistently away from home and that’s because many of the top teams have been doing well at home. But what separates them from the real champions is that they aren’t winning abroad,” he said.

While the coach seems okay with the wickets being dished out in India, it would be interesting to see what the players feel deep within.

The eyes of both the captains would be on thursday morning to see the dryness of pitch to select the playing XI for the match. Lets see what Mohali has in store for the cricket lovers.