Sourav Ganguly blames Gautam Gambhir & Co amid Eden Gardens pitch outcry; ‘this pitch is what the Indian camp wanted’

Former India captain and the current president of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Sourav Ganguly has directly put the blame on the likes of skipper Shubman Gill and head coach Gautam Gambhir after the pitch at the Eden Gardens in the ongoing first Test against South Africa has been the talking point in the last three days.

The 22 yards offered variable turn and and uneven bounce that troubled the batters since the opening day as 27 wickets fell on the first two days. At the time of writing this piece, India are four wickets down in the fourth and final innings, still needing less than 80 runs to win.

With the batters struggling and the match likely to finish inside three days, the Eden Gardens strip earned severe criticism from the former cricketers like Harbhajan Singh and Michael Vaughan who called it a "mockery of Test cricket".

In fact, batting has been difficult from the High Court end as some dark patches were spotted on the track since the beginning of the Test. Amid all the outcry, Ganguly informed that the pitch was prepared according to the wish-list of the Indian team management.

"The pitch is what the Indian camp wanted. This is what happens when you don’t water the pitch for four days. Curator Sujan Mukherjee can’t be blamed," Ganguly was quoted as saying to News18 Bangla.