Kanpur Green Park Stadium Report: The clay soil at Cawnpore Green will turn black, the bounce and carry will end after a while and no big shifts are expected. This is a preliminary report on the pitch at Green Park Stadium. In short, the story is likely to be similar at Kanpur Green Park, where the second and final Test of the India-Bangladesh series begins on September 27.
It is believed that unlike the bounce seen during the four days of the first Test match in Chennai last week, the Green Park pitch will be flat and the bounce will be less due to the age of the Test match. At the same time the surface will become slower. This is due to the presence of black soil on the course.
Cricinfo reports that the Greenpark pitch is different from the Chepauk pitch where both the teams’ fast bowlers and spinners get good bounce. This happened because the pitch was made from red clay imported from Mumbai two years ago. That’s why both teams decided to field three fast bowlers.
Even though Chennai (Chepauk) didn’t take many turns, Chepauk’s delivery as well as the bounce provided enough support to the spinners, as evidenced by the Indian pair of R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, who scored a combined The wicket was taken for 9 runs.
6⃣ wickets on the morning of Day 4🙌
Bangladesh were all out for 234 in the 2nd innings.
an overwhelming victory #IndiaTeam! 💪
Scorecard▶️ https://t.co/jV4wK7BOKA#INDvBAN | @IDFCFIRSTBank pic.twitter.com/TR1RoEDyPB
— BCCI (@BCCI) September 22, 2024
So will you bring 3 spinners into Kanpur?
The slow nature of the Kanpur pitch could indicate a possible change in selection plans for both teams. There is a possibility of replacing the third fast bowler (Siraj or Akash Deep) with a third spinner (Kuldeep Yadav or Akshar Patel). This means that for India, either Kuldeep Yadav or Akshar Patel may get a chance. Jasprit Bumrah is also likely to be rested under workload management.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh elector Hannan Sarkar said in Chennai on Monday that Shakib Al Hasan is likely to be injured as he injured his left index finger while batting on day four. Although Shakib plays the Tests as an all-rounder, Bangladesh could replace Nasheed Rana with left-arm spinner Tejul Islam. Off-spinner Naeem Hasan is also in the visiting team.
He will only be available in the absence of Shakib and Bangladesh still want to have three spinners in the line-up.
What happened in the last Test of 2021?
In the last Test against New Zealand in Kanpur 2021, India fielded three spinners, Ashwin, Jadeja and Axar. This is the first Test match to be played at this ground since 2016, and even then, this Test match was only against New Zealand. One thing both tests have in common is that they both lasted five days. In 2016, India won comfortably and in 2021, New Zealand batsmen showed great courage to tie the game.
It might be a tough task for the bowlers at Kanpur but the batsmen can breathe easy and score runs on this pitch. In Tests 2021, Shreyas Iyer scores a half-century on debut while Tom Latham shows batting mastery by taking on Indian spinners level performance, including two half-centuries.
India-Bangladesh team to play Test series
Bangladesh team: Nazmul Hussain Shanto (captain), Shadman Islam, Zakir Hasan, Mominul Haq, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Liton Das, Mehdi Hasan Miraj, Zakir Ali, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmood, Naheed Rana, Taijul Islam, Mahmudul Hasan , Nayeem Hasan and Khalid Ahmed.
Team India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (Goalkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (Goalkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav , Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah and Yash Dayal.
