‘ICC is toothless’

Former England captain Michael Vaughan has slammed the BCCI for producing pitches that are not deemed good enough for Test cricket and said the more India is allowed to get away with whatever they wish, the more toothless the ICC will look. England on Thursday suffered an embarrassing 10wicket defeat in the third Test against India on a spin-friendly Motera track to go down 1-2 in the four-match series.

The match ended inside two days with the pitch drawing flak from former players like Vaughan, though batting legend Sunil Gavaskar credited the Indian spinners rather than blaming the surface.

"The longer powerful countries like India are allowed to get away with it the more toothless the ICC will look," Vaughan wrote in the Daily Telegraph. "The governing body are allowing India to produce whatever they wish and it is Test cricket that is getting hurt," he said.