Matthew Hayden left perplexed with Rohit Sharma’s decision to bowl first in Gabba Test

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India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl first in the third Test against Australia. The overcast conditions might have provoked the 37-year-old to bat first, which left the former cricketer Matthew Hayden very surprised. He noted that the conditions were friendly to the batters and expects it to break after the first couple of days, and then it can trouble the batting unit.

Indian bowlers failed to threaten the Australian batters in the limited time that they bowled. Usman Khawaja and Nathan McSweeney looked comfortable and for the same reason, Hayden believes that batting would have been a wiser decision. He also highlighted the groundsmen’s point of view and added that the ground was prepared early due to rain.

“I was really surprised that actually, Rohit won the toss and decided to bowl, because I felt like it was over-prepared. I thought it was because of the how much weather. There were almost 12 inches of rain in the past two weeks. And so we’ve got this showery pattern and it’s been that way for a month and a bit,” Hayden told on Star Sports.

“So the groundsman would have been thinking, we’ve got to get our preparation in early, and that’s why I thought that it was gonna be as good a batting conditions as you’re gonna see now in these first two days, with the view that it will break up and, and turn,” he added.

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Hayden also believes that the cracks at Gabba will open up after a couple of days and the spinners can be effective. He analysed that the deck is sluggish in nature and will harden up and added that the weather is very typical of Queensland’s.

“And we’ve seen some great performances from spinners across the world at this venue and, If we do get decent weather, and that’s the fingers crossed at est because of the reasons I just mentioned, there are cracks in the wicket. Yeah, we just had days off, and in fact, one month of rain. The wicket was quite sluggish early, it will harden up a little bit, assuming that we do get the, the weather that, um, is typical of Queensland weather, which is perfect one day and even more perfect the next,” he added.

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