New Delhi. India's star batsmen have lost their confidence playing on turning pitches in the last few years. This is what Team India's former off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has to say. Bhajji has expressed concern over Team India's Test series defeat against New Zealand. He says that our batsmen have lost their confidence by playing on such pitches. And their household average has declined. This has had a bad impact on his career. In the second Test match played in Pune, India had prepared a spin friendly wicket where the host team's spinner Mitchell Santner single-handedly shook the Indian batting by taking 13 wickets.
The Indian team was forced to lose a Test series at home for the first time in the last 12 years. India lost an important toss against New Zealand on the turning pitch of Pune. After this the team could score only 156 and 245 runs. In this, New Zealand's main spinner Mitchell Santner took 13 wickets. Harbhajan Singh told PTI, 'You have had a great record on home ground for such a long time. And if you lose then obviously there will be discussion. Credit goes to New Zealand for the way it played. And these were foreign conditions and there was not a pitch which had much crack.
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'It is not good for our batsmen'
He said, 'These were favorable conditions for the spinners, where the ball should have taken turn from the first hour itself.' Harbhajan raised questions on the thinking process of the Indian team and said, 'Look at the trend during the last decades. We have been playing turners for most of the last decade with the hope that we will win the toss and score 300 runs and control the match. 'But it is not good for our batsmen.
'Playing on such pitches affected Rahane's career'
Harbhajan gave the example of Ajinkya Rahane. He said that the confidence of the Indian batsmen while playing on these pitches is shaken. According to Harbhajan, 'But we do not know whether the tables will turn and whether our batting will work on the turning pitch or not. Our batsmen have lost confidence while playing on these pitches. The biggest example of this is Ajinkya Rahane who is an excellent player. His career was affected due to such pitches.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : October 27, 2024, 11:10 PM IST
