'Too much noise about spin-friendly tracks'

After the debacle show by Joe Root and company in their first match at the newly-renovated Motera stadium here, it has been the spinfriendly track which has been making most of the noise, forgetting the fact, that the English batsmen have failed to apply themselves to the conditions.

The pink-ball encounter has sunk the England side to the lowest and everyone English pundits of the game have come down heavily on the wicket which saw spinner claiming 28 of the 30 wickets fell in the two-day Test match.

But, the fact remains, the batsmen have failed to apply themselves, and Virat Kohli has rightly opened the issue saying that the less one talks about the track would be better, and play the game according to the conditions.

Stop the noise, tighten up that defence and get on with the game, a combative Indian skipper, ahead of the fourth and final Test against England as he navigated persistent queries on the spinfriendly tracks in the country.

"There is always too much noise and too much conversation about spin tacks," Kohli said at the pre-match press conference ahead of the fourth and final Test starting here on Thursday.

"I am sure if our media is in a space to contradict those views or present views which say that it is unfair to criticise only spin tracks, then it will be a balanced conversation."

Kohli, at the end of the third Test, had blamed the batsmen's technique for their failure on the Motera track.

"But the unfortunate bit is everyone plays along with that narrative (spinning tracks) and keeps making it news till the time it is relevant. And then a Test match happens, if you win on day 4 or 5, no one says anything but if it finishes in two days, everyone pounces on the same issue," he said.

"Defence is imperative. Because of the influence of white-ball cricket, Test cricket is witnessing consistent results," he said.