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The wicket of Nagpur has become the top of the town just ahead of the much-anticipated 1st Test in Nagpur starting tomorrow Thursday, the 9th of February. The Australian media has already started raising questions over the texture of wickets that are being prepared by the curators of the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium.
Recently, the major Australian sports broadcaster cricket.com.au posted a few pictures on the micro-blogging site Twitter. The senior Australian southpaw David Warner and former skipper Steve Smith can be seen inspecting the surface of the VCA stadium in Nagpur ahead of the Test series opener.
Notably, the Australian media, former Australian cricketers, and their cricket fans are already assuming and speculating that India would come up with the rank turners.
Whereas, the Indian cricket fans lived up to the expectations of what they are known for. They took to Twitter and started trolling the Australian camp with some hilarious and interesting tweets.
Here’s how fans reacted:
Pitch Kharab mat karna fir bologe turning track de diya
— Dhruv Sharma ( pro wrestling+ Anime Fan ) (@WrestlingOn1) February 7, 2023
— Prathik Calapatti (@prc2310) February 7, 2023
David warner looking at the pitch just for the sake of it. As if he’s gonna score any runs 😂😂🙈
— Ammar Khalid (@AmmarKh444) February 7, 2023
Surprise MoFos 🤌🏼🤌🏼😂😂 pic.twitter.com/p1ywbffA7A
— Rahul D / राहुल / راہول (@rdalwale) February 7, 2023
— Lucifer Morningstar (@Lucifer13524356) February 7, 2023
— Chris (@TheStonehelm) February 8, 2023
Hope Aussies won't do any foul game
— Krishnarpan (@Krishnarpan_Ra) February 7, 2023
Good. Australia shouldn’t make 100
— Ajay Kamath (@ajay43) February 7, 2023
When you understand the pitch, half the battle is over..
— solapuri (@sureshsolapuri) February 8, 2023
What if Australia all out on 24 or even less. Come on India you can do this
— Numan (@noumi_rajpoot) February 7, 2023
Earlier, the other big broadcaster from Australia, Fox cricket also came up with a rant on pitches citing the reports of Australian reporters present there in Australia.
“Only the center of the Nagpur wicket was watered and rolled while the area where bowlers will target left-handers was left bone dry,” Australian reporters quoted by Fox Cricket.
“This was the same at either end of the wicket in what appeared to be a deliberate ploy to make life difficult for left-handers, who for Australia include David Warner, Usman Khawaja, and Travis Head,” reporters added further.
India squad for first two Tests of Border-Gavaskar Trophy
Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), R. Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, and Suryakumar Yadav
Australia squad for first two Tests of Border-Gavaskar Trophy
Pat Cummins (Captain), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey (wk), Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Peter Handscomb, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, David Warner