Sachin Tendulkar on Saturday said that Test cricket should pose more of a test for batsmen. The batting legend is of the opinion that while bowlers are put under pressure in the shorter formats of the game and are severely tested, he questioned whether or not that the batsmen are being tested enough in Test cricket.
“In T20Is and ODIs, the bowlers get tested all the time. In Test cricket, is it testing batters?” Tendulkar was quoted as saying by icc.com.
“The key ingredient of Test cricket is the surface that we play on, when you keep flat, dead surfaces, where the bowler thinks, ‘I have no chance, I’m going to stick to my channel’, and the batter thinks, okay, on this surface if I don’t do anything foolish, I (won’t) be out,’ that game is becoming boring, it’s becoming dull,” Tendulkar, explained.
“It’s not about batting on flat surfaces, I enjoyed playing on surfaces that were given to us, more so when it was an attacking field,” he said.
