India vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane expects the Chepauk pitch to offer serious turn from the very first day of the second Test when his team would bid to level the four-match series.
India lost the first Test by 227 runs on a deck that didn’t have anything for bowlers while the fresh pitch, with a darker and drier look, promises to be a spinners’ paradise in the game starting Saturday.
“Yeah, it looks completely different. I am sure it will turn from day 1 but again as I have said before the first Test match, you have to wait and see how it plays in the first session and take it from there on,” Rahane said at the pre match virtual conference on Friday.
“...But yeah we have to forget what happened in the first Test. We know these conditions really well and we have to put our best foot forward tomorrow and yeah that’s it,” Virat Kohli’s deputy added.