India and Bangladesh battle it out on a dark pitch in Kanpur in the second Test

Red soil will turn black. Jumping and carrying will pass. And don’t expect a level shooter.

In short, that is likely to be the nature of the pitch at Green Park in Kanpur, where the second and final Test of the India-Bangladesh series begins on September 27.

That is in contrast to the Chepauk pitch, where both teams’ seamers and spinners got a good bounce. That was the result of a red clay industrial complex bought in Mumbai two years ago. The bounce has been key with both teams fielding three fast bowlers. Although the degree of turn was not great, along with the bounce, the Chepauk pitch was good enough for the spinners, as shown by the Indian pair of R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, who took nine wickets between them in Bangladesh’s second innings. .

The slow pitch of Kanpur will definitely change the selection plans of both the teams. It is possible that the third seamer can be replaced by the third spinner. That means one of Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel could get a chance for India.

Although it may be a tough task for the bowlers, the batsmen can breathe easy and can get high scores if there are no tricks from above. In the 2021 Test, Shreyas Iyer scored a hundred and fifty on debut and Tom Latham produced a rare masterclass from an overseas batsman to fend off India’s spinners, hitting half-centuries.

Additional reporting by Mohammad Isam