‘Nice to see ozs crying’ – Twitter trolls Australian journalist for his ‘Straight-up pitch doctoring’ comments ahead of Nagpur Test

The preparation of the pitch for the Border Gavaskar Trophy‘s opening game in Nagpur has generated a lot of discussions. Indians think it is completely fair to take advantage of home conditions, while Australians think the home team is unfairly taking advantage by curating rank-turners.

In the meantime, the stadium grounds crew did some special fine-tuning to the playing pitch on Tuesday. After watering the entire surface, only the centre of the pitch received the roller treatment, and extra watering was done outside the left-leg hander’s stump.

Responding to the pitch, senior cricket expert Robert Craddock said on SEN’s podcast, ”It’s a multi-toned pitch. The classic saying about pitches is, ‘Oh, it’s the same for everyone”.

“When the Gabba pitch too much grass was left on it, people were saying, ‘Yes, it was not a great wicket, but it was the same everyone. But you can’t say that about this pitch, Australia has six left-handers in their top eight, so if you start multi-preparing parts of the deck that’s straight-up pitch doctoring, it’s poor,” he said.

Here is how Twitter reacted to Australian Jouranlist’s comments