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Calling it "the demolition of Test cricket", erstwhile India spinner Harbhajan Singh says under-prepared and excessively bowler-friendly surfaces similar the one utilized astatine Eden Gardens, forestall the genuine improvement of players.
India slipped to a 30-run decision portion chasing 124 successful the archetypal Test against South Africa arsenic the crippled ended wrong 3 days.
"They person wholly destroyed Test cricket. Rest successful bid Test cricket," Singh, said connected his YouTube channel.
"The benignant of enactment they person done, the benignant of pitches that person been made for truthful galore years now, I person been seeing it. No 1 talks astir it due to the fact that it is fine, the squad is winning, idiosyncratic is taking wickets, idiosyncratic is becoming large by taking those wickets.
"So everyone feels everything is going well. But I consciousness that this signifier has not started today. It has been going connected for galore years, and I consciousness it is the incorrect mode of playing," added Singh who had taken 13 wickets astatine aforesaid venue successful India's celebrated 2001 triumph implicit Australia.
Singh said it was clip to bespeak connected the contented arsenic specified pitches bash not lend to the improvement of players.
"You are not moving guardant successful immoderate way, you are conscionable going astir successful circles similar an ox tied to a mill. You are winning, but determination is nary existent benefit. As a cricketer, you are not growing," helium said.
"So I consciousness it is precocious clip to spot and bespeak connected this, that playing matches connected specified pitches wherever your batsmen are not adjacent definite however to people runs, and you are making them look similar they bash not cognize however to bat.
"Then what quality remains betwixt a susceptible bowler and a susceptible batsman if the conditions go truthful favourable that radical are getting retired due to the fact that of the transportation and not due to the fact that of skill? It is bittersweet to spot however Test cricket is being played. I don't cognize wherefore we are doing this," said Singh, who has taken 417 wickets successful 103 Tests.
India volition play South Africa successful the 2nd and last Test successful Guwahati starting November 22.
