Kotak continued: “Curator is square and a little more protective or officer about the land. [They] It needs to be understood that people they are talking to are highly skilled and intelligent people.
“When you are working with very intelligent and highly skilled people, if you make a little arrogant sound, you can be protective – but at the end of the day it is a cricket pitch. It’s not an ancient you cannot touch because it is 200 years old and it can break. That’s what I think.”
With no specific outdoor practice field, India used three practice wickets surrounded by a net close to the Test match pitch, which is a standard process.
The BBC Sport asked Surrey for a comment, but the club refused, although in a video Fortis later reduced the incident, told the Indian media that “there is nothing to speak about it. There is nothing to hide here”.
The phenomenon is the latest in a warm and competitive chain between the two sides, ending with India with the fourth test at Old Trafford, refusing to join hands for the draw as Ravindra Jadeja and Washington arrived for beautiful centuries.
India captain Shubman Gill also said that England were working “against the spirit of cricket” with a strategy that wasted time during the third Test at Lord’s.
England expected the five-match series to change the team from 2–1 to 2–1 and Ben Stokes’ draw from Manchester’s draw, especially for bowling line-ups only three days between tests.
Jamie overtan, Gus Atkinson and Josh are spare quick in the tongue squad after Stokes struggled with various swallows. Chris Woakes and Bridan Cars have played all four matches so far and Jofra Archer has played back-to-back after making his comeback with the absence of a four-year injury.
Meanwhile, India will be without wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant due to a fracture leg and he also has a decision on Paes bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who has played a maximum of three Tests which he said that he will do before the series.
