IND vs WI: Indian spinners face ‘Tricky Afternoon’ on slow pitch, says Ten Doeschate

After enforcing follow-on, West Indies batters John Campbell and Shai Hope negotiated the Indian spinners with ease helping themselves to half-centuries.

“We thought the wicket was going to keep deteriorating and by close of play it would be at its worst. It just seems to have slowed down even more. It’s quite challenging to get any pace up,” Ten Doeschate said at the end of the day’s play.

In fact, he corroborated what Ravindra Jadeja had said at the end of second day that spinners will have to use more shoulder to get bounce and zip off the surface.

However Ten Doeschate feels that it is double edged sword which can at times prove to be counter-productive.

“Like I said, you have to really fire the ball in. Of course, when you fire the ball in, it’s got less chance of spinning. So, we have had a tricky afternoon,” the Dutchman said.

“Obviously, monitoring speed is probably the one thing you can play with. You saw every time Washy (Washington) bowled a little bit slower, you get a little bit more turn. Obviously, the batter has a bit more time. So, it’s striking the batter and using the changes in pace to get a mistake out of the batter,” he tried to explain what is doable in this kind of a situation.

( With PTI Inputs )