South African skipper Dean Elgar has lambasted the Gabba pitch on which Australia defeated the Proteas in lower than two days. Elgar claimed he was ignored upon asking the umpires about the risks of batting on the floor.
Notably, the Aussies accomplished their victory an hour after tea on Sunday as the match was determined in 866 deliveries – the second-fewest in the 355 males’s Tests held in Australia. The vacationers have been put in to bat and bowled out for 152 and 99 in their two innings, whereas Australia made 218 and 35/4 to finish the recreation.
After the match, Elgar was requested to share his ideas on the pitch, and he described the floor as a hostile batting observe. The South African skipper talked about his chat with the on-field umpires, the place he requested the officers about the hazard of enjoying on the floor however didn’t get a satisfying response.
“I did ask the umpires. When ‘KG’ got Head out down leg [on Sunday], I said, ‘How long does it go on for before it potentially is unsafe?’ Then Nortje was bowling those short ones that were flying over our heads. I know the game was dead and buried. It was never to change or put a halt to the game, but that was where the umpires’ discretion comes into play, not us as players. No. There were only a handful of runs left [to get] at that stage, so maybe they thought I was just trying to take the mickey. But it’s not a bad reference point going forward to get a reply. I don’t see it changing anything, but there wasn’t a reply,” stated Elgar in the post-match presser.
As many as 34 wickets fell in the two days, and Elgar reckoned it wasn’t an excellent advisement for Test cricket earlier than mentioning that it wasn’t a super pitch in Brisbane.
“You’ve got to ask yourself – is that a good advertisement for our format? Thirty-four wickets in two days; a pretty one-sided affair, I would say. We want to see the game go to four or five days. The nature of how it started to play, with some seriously steep bounce with the old ball, you’re on a hiding to nothing as a batting unit. Only three batsmen applied themselves half decently and scored runs. I don’t think that was a very good Test wicket,” added Elgar.
