Rohit Sharma takes sly dig at Cape Town wicket post Rajkot Test win against England

For the first time since 2019, the Test matches in India have gone towards the fourth day and were likely to get into the fifth day. In the ongoing five-match Test series between India and England, all three games ended inside four days. Wickets have been such that these games could have easily gone into the fifth day.

Notably, during the Test series against England and Australia in the last three years at home, only one game went into the fifth day. That game ended in a draw. Meanwhile, before the home series against England, India played two Tests in South Africa. While the wicket at the SuperSport park was a decent one, the Cape Town wicket was dangerous.

As India is leading the ongoing series by 2-1, India skipper Rohit Sharma is confident that his team can anywhere.

“We have won a lot of matches on such wickets before. The turning tracks and on pitches where the ball turns remain our strength. It gives us balance,” Rohit told the media here.

“We have given results for many years and we will get results in the future as well. But we don’t have control over certain things — we don’t discuss whether we want rank turners or not. We come here (at the venues) two days before the match and how much can we do anyway in two days?

“The curators decide and make the pitch. We have the strength to play on any wicket and win on it. When we won the Test in South Africa (at Cape Town), everyone knows what kind of wicket it was,” he said.

In the last three Tests we played, there were different challenges: Rohit Sharma

The two-time World Event winner added that his team has gotten different challenges in the first three games.

“(In) the last three Tests we played, there were different challenges. In the first Test (Hyderabad), the ball was spinning and the pitch was slow. In Vizag, it was (keeping) low. As the game progressed, the wicket became slower. Here, it played well for the first three days.

“Today, we saw that the ball was turning and it was low. This is (in) the nature (of pitches), we get pitches like these in India. But if we get rank turners, we will play on them as well,” Rohit added.