Not unreasonably, India therefore prepared another turning track for the second Test in Mumbai.
A turning track in Mumbai and the series would be over.
"I think with the tight, turning track and the crowd, it was a good choice.
On a seaming or turning track, you would imagine that having five close fieldsmen would make batting harder.
Was it just good fortune that England's lower-order left-handers were faced with Ashwin spinning the ball away from them on a deviously turning track?
"This is a tight turning track and I've seen the great jockeys, [Chris ] McCarron [Bill] Shoemaker, [Laffit] Pincay, all getting boxed in here.
You're chiding me for not helping turn track into a mainstream sport, and you've just pivoted a conversation about Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin into a conversation about reverse Kipsang numbers?
Pakistan's spinners had limited South Africa to 133-6 on a turning track.
"I think with the tight, turning track and the crowd, it was a good choice (of race) and it paid dividends.
