Gavaskar doesn't want importance given to foreign players criticizing pitches

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar does not want importance to be given to foreign players who are criticizing the Indian pitches and said they will keep doing it till the time they are getting publicity out of itFormer England skipper Michael Vaughan has been quite vocal in his criticism of the pitches used in the ongoing Test series between India and England Ahead of the fourth Test Vaughan had shared a picture of him standing in dugup soil with a bat in his hands Preparations going well for the 4th Test OnOn INDvENG he had written in the captionThe discussion should have been around bowling and batting The batsmen got bowled or were given LBW how can we call it a bad pitch Why do we give this much importance to foreign players Why should we discuss what they are saying Gavaskar told host broadcaster Star Sports on ThursdayWhen India gets all out on 36 runs then are the comments of Kapil Dev Sachin Tendulkar Sourav Ganguly or Virender Sehwag given importance by that countrys media or TV channel Not at all Then why are we giving importance to them And when we will not give them importance they will learn the lesson Till the time they know that they will get importance and publicity they will keep doing it England team did not complain Joe Root did not complain he addedIndia had managed to defeat England by ten wickets within two days in the pinkball Test The match saw both India and England batsmen failing to shine and getting out to balls that didnt turn and skidded through from the spinners But critics have looked to blame the pitch for the failure of the batsmen Commenting on the pitch during the match Vaughan had tweeted Lets be honest this is not a 5 day Test pitch INDvENGAlso former England spinner Monty Panesar on Sunday criticised the pitch and said It was like playing club cricket on a Saturday in England When we play club cricket we will bowl a team out for under 100 and then its difficult to chase because its a turning pitch I think being the biggest stadium in the world Narendra Modi Stadium deserves longer Test matches because people want to see how good the wicket is you look at the stadium beautiful views and what an amazing stadium India has produced It does not deserve a twoday Test match thats under 900 balls you might just play on a park if you are going to play this type of cricketHowever after the third Test Rohit Sharma had clarified that he did not think the pitch had any demons Even India skipper Virat Kohli was vocal about the dreadful batting display from the two teamsBoth the team are currently competing against each other in the fourth and the final Test of the series At stumps on Thursday Indias score read 241 with Rohit 8 and Pujara 15 at the crease trailing the visitors by 181 runs in the first inningsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever