Analysis: It's as if India’s pitch advisers have raised their middle figure to complaints about overcooked decks. Batsmen are now kings in the fourth Test in Ahmedabad
Each of the first three Tests were over inside three days, but this match could go three weeks if the batsmen keep their heads down. Only 13 wickets have fallen for 769 runs with two days to play.
Like Australia’s 23-year-old Cameron Green, who scored his maiden century a day earlier, Gill is a rare talent.His timing is exquisite, and he has a unique horizontal punch off the back foot to a short of a length delivery which would cramp up most batsmen. It brought him a delightful boundary off Mitchell Starc to register a half-century.
Such fields were banned in the Sheffield Shield a couple of generations ago, when only five were allowed on the leg side to encouraging developing bowlers to prosecute attacking, wicket-taking lines. India had scored 441 batting first and Australia raced to 2-189 at stumps on the second day with Simon Katich flying on 92. It took him a long time to get his century the following day.
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