Bengaluru to offer up 'sporting' pitch for 2nd test


  • Cricket
  • Tuesday, 28 Feb 2017

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Barring a last-minute intervention from the home side, the second test between India and Australia will be played on a "sporting" pitch which will be fair to both teams, organisers in Bengaluru have said.

Pitch talk dominated reaction in India to their series-opening defeat inside three days in Pune, where Australia's left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe claimed 12 wickets, the best figures recorded by a visiting spinner on Indian soil.

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