Boxing Day Test Pitch Report: How is the condition of the pitch in India vs Australia Boxing Day Test? The curator revealed the secret

Cricket News Desk. Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) curator Matt Page said the drop-in pitch will be helpful for all the fast bowlers, including India pacer Jasprit Bumrah, for the Boxing Day Test starting on Thursday. Bumrah is the highest wicket taker in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series. The series is currently tied at 1-1 and he has taken 21 wickets at an average of 10.9. Page said, 'I think now whenever fast bowlers come here, they get excited. This is good for us. We'll never be as fast as Perth or Brisbane, but we've managed to build some momentum over the last few years, which has generated a lot of excitement. There is some grass on it. If you are a fast bowler and see this, you will probably get excited.

MCG pitch curator told what the pitch will be like in the match
He also defended the nature of the pitches given to India during net practice on Saturday and Sunday, particularly on the grounds that the visiting team was not happy with the low-bounce surface. “We prepare the pitches for Test matches here three days in advance.” If the teams come and train first, they will get the same pitches that we have got. Today we are at a new stage. If India had trained this morning they would have been on those new pitches. This was a normal procedure for us till three days ago.

6 mm grass will be left on the pitch
Temperatures are expected to reach 40 degrees in Melbourne as all tickets for the first day of the match have been sold out. Page said the extreme heat would have no impact on pitch preparation for the important match, as six millimeters of grass would be present on the surface. 'This probably means that if the temperature had been 20 degrees it could have risen slightly faster. I can't say yes or no right now on whether we should add a little more moisture to it or not. We will continue to monitor the weather… and adjust our preparations accordingly. We have been very happy for the last few years, so this is like a new beginning for us.

India vs Australia Boxing Day Test expected to be exciting
Page concluded his speech by considering the changing nature of the Melbourne pitch, on which the first draw was likely. He further said- Seven years ago we were making very flat pitches. Now we want to make the Test matches more exciting, so now we are leaving more grass on it. He said, 'This increases the role of the bowlers a little more, but even after the arrival of the new ball, they are good for batting.'

He further said, “Our aim is to give opportunities to the bowlers at different points of the game and if they play well then to give opportunities to the batsmen as well.” So we experimented with layers of grass, compaction and moisture, which took about three years to get right. What we have done over the last two or three years has been consistency, which has resulted in there being a little more grass on the pitches than before. This has made the matches exciting and that is what we want.