Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma has criticized the ICC match referees after winning the Test match against South Africa.
In the press conference, Rohit Sharma did not directly criticize the pitch of the Test match, but at the same time, he also expressed his anger against the criticism of the Indian pitches.
“When you come here to play Test cricket, you talk about Test cricket being a great thing and then you have to stand by it,” Rohit Sharma said.
According to Indian media, former England opener Chris Broad was the ICC match referee for the 2-Test series played between India and South Africa and captain Rohit Sharma believes that the referees included in the ICC list. Must be neutral.
The Indian captain said quite aggressively in the press conference that it is important that we remain neutral everywhere, especially the match referees, there are some match referees who need to keep their eyes on how they grade the pitches. do
Rohit Sharma expressed his displeasure over the World Cup final pitch played in Ahmedabad being called ‘average’ and said that I still can’t believe that the World Cup final pitch was called average.
He said that a batsman scored a century in the final match, so how can it be a bad pitch?
So the ICC and the match referees need to think about it, start grading the pitches based on what they see and not the host countries,” said Rohit Sharma.
Talking about the Newlands pitch, the Indian captain said, “I hope they will keep their eyes and ears open and consider these aspects.”
Rohit Sharma said that we are proud to play on such pitches, all I want to say is to be neutral.
“I would like to see how the pitches are rated, I want to see it now, I want to see the chart of how they rate the pitches,” the Indian captain said.
Rohit Sharma said that obviously Mumbai, Bengaluru, Cape Town, Centurion are all different places where the weather is different, the pitches are worse.
The Indian captain further said that I have seen enough cricket now, I have seen enough how these match referees look at these ratings, I have no problem with how they want to note, let them remain neutral. Should.